Google says it's rolling out a fix for stricken Chromecasts

Google has told The Register it's beginning to roll out a fix for Chromecast devices that were crippled by an expired security certificate authority. We're assured this deployment will take place over the next few days.

On Sunday, March 9, users of the Chocolate's Factory's second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices found their kit was not functioning with official Google apps at least. Unofficial apps including VLC should still be working. The problem was traced back to a Google-owed device authentication certificate authority, which had expired that weekend after ten years of validity and left the streaming kit flashing up an "untrusted device" error.

Although there's no official message on the support page as yet, Google has confirmed to us it will push out a patch over the internet to people's Chromecasts during the next few days to address the error. The firmware-level update ...