great post.

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.

I have no idea if this is relevant, but happy to share with you.

I had something go wrong with my account last week, with no recourse.
My master password just stopped working.

Steemit never tried to resolve the issue.

(my account was less than a hundred dollars, so hardly big news.)

What I DO know, is that i never changed anything, and everything was working fine for 3 weeks. (and yes i kept hand written copies of it - 2 actually- and they matched my master.

Something went wrong, and nothing was done about it.

https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/patriot-wargamer-is-back-and-reloaded

hi there Everyone - I have had major problems this last week or so - And my patriot wargamer account cannot be accessed.
So this my new account I am now using.

Have to start from scratch again - your support would be greatly appreciated -
I am contacting all my followers to let you know.
I will be reposting all my best posts here, in the hope of getting things back as they were for me.

I hope you will be refollowing me - as I wil be, to all my new friends I found over the last 3/4 weeks.

If anyone knows cheetah, tell him to lay off any plagiarism accustations! lol

Cheers PW

Steemit does not provide support for accounts. Either someone obtained and then changed your password, you are transcribing it incorrectly, or the computer system you are using to access steemit is somehow damaged or compromised.

I encourage you to use a password manager and the latest stable version of the Chrome browser. For maximum security, use an iPad or a Chromebook.

no one obtained and changed my password - in the real world anyway.

(Oh, and someone with more knowledge than me, has checked the blockchain, and it shows no change of password...?)

my transcribing it correctly ?- 3 weeks without an error in log in(every day, multiple times some days) - 2 handwritten copies that match up perfectly. re written and tried again. - no.

Have other steemit account that is working fine.

Compromised?- I don't know. - from a steemit user while online you mean?

I do know I have never had any other security issues in 10 years.

I have Steemit friend who also lost access to his account. Not likely it was hacked as there has been no withdrawing ever. He is not techno talented like so many more,he is an artist who just logs in and posts. He never changed his PW either. Weird. what ever else you got brain storming I'd like to give it a try.

...and I have found another - exactly the same thing - no change of password etc.
- I never did any withdrawals.

If this was happening on a large scale - that's an enormous amount of steem locked in (good for value of the company)
My account was around 50 dollars, i think ( it bought some steempower just before)

Imagine if it was a 1000 accounts a month, with that amount of money? - I'm sure many would just give up. That's a lot of stored value.

I'm as technologically talented as your average retarded rock.

But if you have any ideas...?

Yes F cheetah

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.

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!

> do you want me to explain it for you?

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.

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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