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by dialup_sounds 601 days ago
Scroll down a little further on your link for confirmation of what the parent said:

> As was well-documented over the weekend, trustd employs a “fail-soft” call to Apple’s OCSP service: If the service is unavailable or the device itself is offline, trustd (to put it simply) goes ahead and “trusts” the app.

Even at the time people quickly figured out you could just disconnect from the internet as a workaround until the issue was fixed.