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,...

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

Look into the activity of @sneak
That account comes up a lot in these types of situations.

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.

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.

Yup... so far so good!

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.