Fields could be a computer term for how data is organized in a file. Name, address1 ... would be useful for hackers.
Hacking electronic voting is not that difficult—if you work for the company that manufactures the machines or writes the software or monitors or transmits any data.
Those employees could be bribed or blackmailed—or could be bad actors themselves.
The hacks could be hardware or software or monkey in the middle if the data is transmitted _anywhere_.
The potential reward of such hacking _far_ outweigh the risks of getting caught.
Electronic voting is a mega disaster imho—it cannot be fixed.
Oh, right. I should’ve thought of that. I did a bunch of relational databases, field mapping, data conversions, etc. Good to know I’ve been retired long enough that database lingo isn’t the first thing to pop in my mind. :)
Fields could be a computer term for how data is organized in a file. Name, address1 ... would be useful for hackers.
You are correct on the first part. Mr. Deering is wrong in his assessment that it is dangerous to make it public. It is already public information. Any entity that provides mass data provides the field layout as part of the “data dump”.
I agree with Ms Grimes point that the public should be able to see this. I disagree with her that the file is error ridden. No file that size is without errors.