HUGE! Maricopa County Audit Team Admit Files Were Deleted but THEY WERE ABLE TO RECOVER THOSE FILES (VIDEO)
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I'm a bit skeptical of this. I would think people managing computer resources would know that deleting a file without overwriting the contents just makes it a little bit more difficult to recover but still easily recoverable. So what if someone first replaced the database files with ones that would cover up their crime and then they deleted those. The people recovering the files might think they outfoxed the fraudsters but in fact the fraudsters outfoxed them.
Ha! Even people in IT aren't that smart, let alone some low level diversity hire.
Lmao I mean this is the biggest thing. These people aren't hiring the best, only the most unscrupulous and shady people with zero morals.
The best engineers do not work for the government directly. They don't pay well enough.
Skilled database administrator and developer: should I take the job by the government that pays about 80k, or the job in the private sector that pays 140k which can springboard in a few years to one that pays 180k?
Easy choice.
Well, there is the government retirement, but that takes years/decades to access and most people aren't into delayed gratification.
Yes, perhaps. But, I am even less able to believe the audit team would be "We got the files!" if those file were fakes that showed everything was just super legit and everything.
Also, "We caught them all" does not suggest a plan dependent on the lack of attention to detail of the election hackers.
Your concern is very valid; yet I remain unconcerned.
They would still need to explain why the files were deleted. Those files are part of the election records, and deleting them is itself a crime.
That’s a fairly likely scenario in my opinion.
Agreed. Could be all a show though.
If we.play this.out, let's apply Occam's razor.
If they deleted files AND overwrote the exact sectors with replacements, does it make sense that they would:
Further, if they thought about doing the above, wouldn't that be more difficult and require the same skillset to:
The latter is far easier than the former. we're not talking about entire drives, either, so random passes wouldnt take much time. Data files weren't that big. Also, sql data files usually preallocate in contiguous blocks to keep read and write speeds higher. This makes overwriting random data easier.
I don't buy that they were advanced enough, or calculated enough to put fake files in place and keep them marked as deleted as a red herring. They are just bad at IT.
Thank you for bringing up the skeptical thought I have been having this whole time. How do we know that this recovered database is the original one???? Seems like it would make it a lot easier to replace if there was no way to verify it or know that the machine was untampered.
Just finished ITS 455, digital forensics for my bachelors and I just want to say it’s pretty cool hearing exactly what I was learning about happen in a real and extremely significant case
I don't think the disk works that way. You obviously can't have data live forever on the disk for information that's no longer used, you'd end up consuming space for no reason.
This was the first concern that popped in to my head as well. Let's just hope they didn't send their best (they rarely do).
No. This isn't the case.
SQL DB updating takes some skill and ability. Those DBs in some cases several gigs large, including 10s of thousands of lines. SQL also has a built in log, that would show if edits were made and by who.
Faking a DB set of this magnitude would be incredibly difficult.