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Please provide an example of any database that is tamper resistant. As a DevOps engineer I have setup and configured many different databases, I have yet to com

Please provide an example of any database that is tamper resistant. As a DevOps engineer I have setup and configured many different databases, I have yet to come across any that someone with admin credentials (which you always need at one least of), didn’t have the ultimate ability to tamper and do anything they will to database.

ak_111 4y ago
even simpler than database technology. A git repository is tamper resistant.
- funklute 4y ago
  No it's not. You can rewrite history.
- icelancer 4y ago
  Not under SHA-1 it isn't.
funklute 4y ago
I agree that databases on their own are never tamper resistant. But you can certainly set up a process around the database that guarantees tamper resistance. You'll still have to trust said process, and with blockchain you still have to trust the code. You'll never get away from having to trust _something_, but at least it is in theory feasible to have tamper resistance both with a centralised database and with a blockchain.
- dropnerd 4y ago
  in practice, there's a difference between "our SREs and management promise to not change anything" and "it would cost x billion dollars to replace this record with a different one, based on previous attacks we've observed"
  - funklute 4y ago
    > "our SREs and management promise to not change anything" But you can lock a database down to the point where only external auditors have access to the admin keys. It would make debugging challenging for sure, but that's anyway a tricky part of distributed systems such as bitcoin.