Kevin said: > Yes. It's been pretty well known for years. There are so many problems with what they're doing it makes the mind reel. > -Kevin
Thanks for that Kevin. This is truly revelation for me. I guess the next thing people are gonna tell me is that their system is written in VB 5 or below... Dana said: > Now, I am not an Access user but SQL Server has a transaction log, doesn't Access? Dana, Access is designed to be a single user desktop database. It is not designed for transactional security and there is no logging process... The article in the link I originally posted was worried about the paper trail being missing in order to double check the vote. Ordinarily, no paper trail wouldn't concern me if there was a decent electronic audit trail like you get with enterprise level databases but with Access, you have nothing. Even more concerning is that the best security you are going get with Access is the standard MS Office password protection on the DB file and that is not hard to break if indeed a password has been set at all. There are no such things as users or roles in an Access database. It seems to me that a system that is tracking the votes of an election to effectively elect the leader of the western world (lets face it, the US is so powerful, the presidency has an effect on all western countries) should not be getting off the designers whiteboards if they choose MS Access except where they are prototyping a design in a testbed environment to prove concepts and later apply them to their chosen Enterprise DB system... I certainly wouldn't expect to see Access in a production environment as critical as voting for the leader of the presidency of the US. Now, you mentioned muffins?!? Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135067 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
