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Security Issue - Trusted Root CA certificate installation

Launcher Version: N/A Operating system: Windows Antivirus/Firewall (if any): N/A Wine/Mono Version (if any): N/A Hello, I've noticed that the launcher installs a custom Root CA certificate onto my machine. After checking the code, it seems that this certificate is used for Authenticode verification of the validity of the signatures of automatically downloaded launcher executables. I believe I do not need to expound the security implications of this too much to an audience of software developers,...

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