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  1. How could this be used to break in? on NSA backdoor creates security hole in Windows · · Score: 1

    Can someone tell me precisely how the NSA could
    use this to break in to someone's computer?

    My understanding is that this key might be used
    by a computer to verify software downloaded from
    the internet. Will the operating system accept
    software signed with any of the three keys
    mentioned in the article? This should be easy
    to check, if as is claimed in the article, the
    key named NSAKEY can be altered.

    Even if that's true, the only way I can think to
    exploit this is to convince the target computer
    to download a cryptography module or whatever
    from a site I control. How could you do that?

    Alex.