because it can connect to the engine remotely from another computer.
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You're still being stupid. You think that it's a smoking gun because SSMS was installed on the voting machine, but the fact that SSMS can connect remotely means that it is not necessary to have it installed locally to perform edits. It can be installed on a laptop and access SQL Server without being detected. It can also be removed from the laptop and you would never know it.
The article says it was locally installed on the same machine as the database engine. That's the point of this and other articles like it. You're a fucking retard. You don't even need SSMS. You can use a myriad of other programs, including writing your own programs, to connect to and manipulate the data in a database. I do that all the time as a programmer. You don't get it, Qtard.
i use mysql and mariadb mostly, maybe Postgres
And all of those database engines can be remotely connected as well. The voting machines didn't use those database engines. It used MS SQL Server. What's your point in bringing them up?
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