The fine line Between Security and Usability
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| Another issue which came to light last week may pose more of a problem for
| business and home users, especially given that Microsoft acknowledged to the
| discoverer that they would not be patching the remote code execution
| vulnerability that he had reported -
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| "Microsoft replied me that they would not fix this vulnerability, it looks
| like they will not acknowledge vulnerabilities which are from .mdb file".
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| [...]
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| As far as JET .mdb files go, it seems that Microsoft has deprecated the
| technology somewhat, but it still continues to be supported by the latest
| versions of Access (Access 2007).
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http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/11/19/304/The_fine_line_Between_Security_and_Usability
JET is also responsible for having the elections ruined.
Related:
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| 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...
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| 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]...
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| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
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| 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....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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