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Re: Attackers hose down Microsoft's Jet DB Engine

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> ____/ Richard Rasker on Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:31 : \____
> 
>> What do you do if you find an exploitable flaw in your code? Well,
>> nothing, of course -- at least if you're Microsoft:
>> 
>>
>
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/jet_database_engine_security_flaws/
>> 
>> Apparently, Microsoft "thought it had blocked the attack vectors."
>> Incompetent idiots.
>> 
>> 
>> Richard Rasker
> 
> Just don't bet your next elections on Microsoft's negleigence.
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
> | November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
> | corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
> | 
> | The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
> | engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
> | of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
> | occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
> | a complex environment]...
> | 
> | The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
> | crashing and freezing on election night....
> | 
> | The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
> | to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
> | in the results....
> `----

Incredible, isn't it? Microsoft may be technically incompetent, but they are
*really* good salespeople. What other company can sell unreliable crapware
for several decades and get away with it? What other company can convince
government officials that their toy database (with proven weaknesses and
all) is fit for use at the very heart of democracy?


Richard Rasker
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