You're incorrect about one thing: databases do not store information. They store data. You use data to create information. Data must be transformed, manipulated, or interpreted in order to be information.
I don't know why anyone is getting worked up about SQL Server on these machines. The data have to be stored somehow, and SQL Server is pretty easy to use.
The article is obviously written by someone not familiar with sql or ssms.
The article did mention 'with right credentials' someone could manipulate the data.
But you would never need to do this from the voting machine itself. If you have access to the network the machines are on them any computer/device can access the database.
Ssms is a program used to view/work on sql databases.
Understood that if it is against the rules to have ssms then that is no bueno.
Sql server program itself is different than ssms.
MySQL is very similar...you have a server that collects data...and different programs to insert or report. (Websites etc)
You can use many different programs to access sql databases such as ssms.
But all require credentials
I'm just a spectator no idea how these are setup.
If each machine is holding a database...then yes 'SQL server' would be on each machine and most likely ssms as well.
I would guess each machine holds a local log (local server)
('Guessing;')
and vote results are communicated to a centralized server on a closed network (hopefully)...or moved by some other means.
It would not be strange to have a locallyhosted server and database in each voting machine.
But would be strange to have each machine connected to an external network and configured to allow remote connections.
Ya right! Still eating popcorn and waiting for the day when every one realizes the whole 2020 election was rigged and was a fraud. Pass the salt, please.
I’m a software engineer and Microsoft’s development ecosystem has been amazing since they started redoing everything with dotnet core etc.. I wouldn’t blame the tech stack for this.
I had to work with SQL some 20 years ago (one of the many little turns my career has taken). It was very frustrating - commands that didn't work, or didn't work as described, or gave a different result. Now I wonder if that wasn't by design - so they could become undocumented features of the SW?
I mean it could have been just bad SW, like so many things Micro$uck, but it could also have been a way to slip code past people for "other" use.
A couple other people I knew encountered the same issues I did. It may have been a specific release and certain commands - IDK. Most of the commands were fine.
They would have been lower cost if they had used https://mariadb.org/
However, it's not really clear they need the functions of a databaseI It's just adding records to a file. It's another vector to hack the machines.
The machine was designed to give you 20 ways to hack the vote, and to have plausible deniability. "It's just the default installation."
You're incorrect about one thing: databases do not store information. They store data. You use data to create information. Data must be transformed, manipulated, or interpreted in order to be information.
I don't know why anyone is getting worked up about SQL Server on these machines. The data have to be stored somehow, and SQL Server is pretty easy to use.
It's accurate, like it or not.
The article is obviously written by someone not familiar with sql or ssms.
The article did mention 'with right credentials' someone could manipulate the data.
But you would never need to do this from the voting machine itself. If you have access to the network the machines are on them any computer/device can access the database.
Ssms is a program used to view/work on sql databases. Understood that if it is against the rules to have ssms then that is no bueno.
Sql server program itself is different than ssms. MySQL is very similar...you have a server that collects data...and different programs to insert or report. (Websites etc)
You can use many different programs to access sql databases such as ssms.
But all require credentials
I'm just a spectator no idea how these are setup.
If each machine is holding a database...then yes 'SQL server' would be on each machine and most likely ssms as well.
I would guess each machine holds a local log (local server)
('Guessing;') and vote results are communicated to a centralized server on a closed network (hopefully)...or moved by some other means.
It would not be strange to have a locallyhosted server and database in each voting machine.
But would be strange to have each machine connected to an external network and configured to allow remote connections.
A shocking discovery, right?
Ya right! Still eating popcorn and waiting for the day when every one realizes the whole 2020 election was rigged and was a fraud. Pass the salt, please.
And the primaries, midterms, 2016.. 2000.. god knows how far back they've been fucking us, fren ?
Poor Bill Gates... All that land he's been buying up is gonna get confiscated.
I’m a software engineer and Microsoft’s development ecosystem has been amazing since they started redoing everything with dotnet core etc.. I wouldn’t blame the tech stack for this.
A system is only as secure as the architects make it.
I had to work with SQL some 20 years ago (one of the many little turns my career has taken). It was very frustrating - commands that didn't work, or didn't work as described, or gave a different result. Now I wonder if that wasn't by design - so they could become undocumented features of the SW?
I mean it could have been just bad SW, like so many things Micro$uck, but it could also have been a way to slip code past people for "other" use.
I've been using MSSQL for over 25 years. Never had an issue with it.
A couple other people I knew encountered the same issues I did. It may have been a specific release and certain commands - IDK. Most of the commands were fine.