What an attacker could do is get a trusted party to sign application code that legitimately needs privilege to run, but that contains a flaw (or back door). Once the app is installed, the person who introduced the back door would then be able to attack the system. The party that signs the app might not even know; the bad guy (or national government) might arrange for a contractor to introduce the hole in an application that is officially signed by a company that knows nothing.
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You would break it indirectly
Date: 2012-06-08 05:41 pm (UTC)