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H&R Block tax software installs a TLS root certificate with bundled private key

Quality: 6/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A Hacker News post alleges that H&R Block's tax software installs a root certificate authority into the local trust store and includes the private key, enabling potential TLS traffic manipulation. The post includes a demonstration and suggests auditing trusted root certificates; the vendor reportedly acknowledges related findings but has not fixed the issue.

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