csv, xml, and json are all plain ASCII formats and can be human-edited with ease in any plain text editor. (And anyone who suggests MS Notepad as an example, should be taken out with Bill Gates and shot.)
Plenty of ways a text file can be checksummed, but if the checsum is in the file too, then it was intended only for detecting transmission errors, and is worthless for preventing deliberate alteration. Anyone altering the file can just generate a new checksum.
I'd bet anything there are no more secure checks, like origin authetication certificates implemented for Dominion voting machine input or output files.
csv, xml, and json are all plain ASCII formats and can be human-edited with ease in any plain text editor. (And anyone who suggests MS Notepad as an example, should be taken out with Bill Gates and shot.)
Plenty of ways a text file can be checksummed, but if the checsum is in the file too, then it was intended only for detecting transmission errors, and is worthless for preventing deliberate alteration. Anyone altering the file can just generate a new checksum.
I'd bet anything there are no more secure checks, like origin authetication certificates implemented for Dominion voting machine input or output files.