Explanation please.... this needs to be addressed!
How is this possible? Someone with admin credentials changed this database entry. Explain this please. Or I can if you prefer.
Are you going to investigate this or do you want me to explain it for you?
If you'd supply some background, maybe a username or id.
Your screenshot only shows a data structure and no information on the entry itself!
yes please!
I don't know if you noticed, but @jphenderson did provide an explanation in reply to another comment.
I have in the meantime also spoken to @jphenderson directly.
I still do not see any confirmation for the suggested "blockchain deletion".
The screenshot above shows a "Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio" interface. So to begin with, this is not the blockchain, but at most some mirror DB that has been created from blockchain data. Deleting entries in such a DB of course would be easy.
Next it shows the Table structure of an Accounts Table, in which the column properties for "owner" are highlighted. Again, nothing of concern at all.
I'm glad you have been on your toes on this matter. I have been focusing on a leaky roof, and haven't spared much attention elsewhere, as is my wont.
I have no idea what it means, but it looks important... How about a heads up for technomoron???
It's the database entry for a comment someone made on a post of mine they flagged when we said the 2 people that did it were in collusion. At first they denied knowing each other but when we called them out on one sending the other what was a million dollars worth of steem at the time of sending somehow the comment magically changed to say that he did know the other guy without appearing as edited on steemd.com. The fucked up part is that the fields on the left all say "not null" which means they shouldn't be empty yet they all are. The person who altered it had "admin credentials" which means that someone is either a) hacking the database or b) someone within steemit, inc is altering the database. However, the blockchain technology used makes a impossible but after reviewing some of the code b is almost easy for someone that controls at least 6 of the top 19 witnesses. Thanks for asking the pertinent question BTW. I am working on an alternative platform before I expose what else I've found and you, my friend, are someone that I intend to invite to the early, invite-only phase. I don't want to give out too many details about it here for obvious reasons but not only am I plugging the security holes but I'm also going to be adding features that will be very useful for all.
Thank you... I feel honored that you think enough of me to invite me. If I can help in any way just holler!
By the way... Is it possible for a witness to mess with your payouts. I posted a chapter of my story today (which typically gets around $20.00) and made $8.00. I think I pissed one off.
Look into the activity of @sneak
That account comes up a lot in these types of situations.
Steemit Inc. does not run SteemSQL. We don’t touch Microsoft products, and we are not a user of that service.
We run steemit.com off of our own set of steemd nodes with their own databases that come directly from the blockchain. It’s all completely open source, so you can run a steemd node and a web app server yourself and ensure that your view of the blockchain has not been tampered with (it will exactly match what you see on steemit.com, though, because we serve the blockchain unmodified at all times).
I suggest you fact check your claims before making such accusations in the future.
great post.
Sorry to bug you again, but how do you unvote a witness?
Did you get your witness unvoted?
Yup... so far so good!
I see you didn't get an answer.
It's sad that dodging responsibility is the name of the game here.
IF what you have here is true, that somebody altered the blockchain anonymously, that is an issue.
Anyone claiming that the blockchain can be altered surreptitiously doesn’t understand how the blockchain works. It’s not a centralized database that can be edited. It exists on hundreds of computers.
Well, that is kinda what I figured, but I don't code.
Was that elfspice, again?
Can control of a certain number of witnesses be an attack vector?
Thanks for taking time,...
A most excellent observation, and one I hope is resolved in your development effort.
I cannot stress enough that I am interested in that development.
I am glad I found this post, thanks to @freebornangel's resteem, as I had somehow missed before now.
Thanks!
Sounds like a problem with the database you are connecting to. Why not run your own instead?
Thanks for the upvote on 5/27/2018... :-)
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