Intelligence agencies and law enforcement often have a need to file multiple charges against suspected criminals. This is necessary to allow for a wider range of investigation. Uncomfortable questions need to be asked; suspects and potential accomplices need to be provoked; and all stones need to be overturned in order to gather as much useful data as possible, which then is presented to a judge and jury. Usually, some charges are dropped, but the case goes forward with the evidence that supports a justified prosecution.

Some people may be offended or upset with my style of investigating an issue, but I concern myself with getting results which bring me closer to the truth. And for this I have no regrets, nor do I feel the need to apologize.

Although I am here to push further for the freezing of the @steemauto.app account, it would be a lack of manners if I did not show my gratitude to our Consensus Witnesses for having taken the time to look into this serious security threat. In particular, I would like to thank Consensus Witness @future.witness for beginning the important process of informing and warning as many Steemians as possible of the risk to the security of their accounts.

Regarding the latest information and development of Steemauto, we would like to advise and remind you to check for your account authorities and remove @steemauto.app; or your account safety could be compromised. Follow any of these links to revoke @steemauto.app authorities from your account.
https://steemlogin.com/revoke/steemauto.app ||
https://steemworld.org/account-authorities

I would also like to thank Consensus Witness @symbionts for publishing the following post, warning Steemians of this security issue:

Symbiont{s} | Public Service Announcement | SteemAuto & @steem-supporter

I do not know what other measures will be taken, but I trust that our Consensus Witnesses have understood the severity of this threat, and will do whatever they can to safeguard the accounts of all Steem Stakeholders.

I know that the freezing of accounts is an unpopular topic, but my request was and is based on the precedent that the current Hard-Fork set last year. This is something that can be done, and in my opinion should be done, but that is only my opinion. I would in no way judge negatively our Consensus Witnesses if they decided, or have already decided, that it is not a good idea.

However, I must express my concern for the potential risk that leaving such a scammer free to continue to openly abuse the system can have on the future. For a person with no ethics, morals, principles, values or scruples, it would be easy to coldly move forward with the manipulation of our voting system. @steem-supporter at this point is falling from grace, and falling fast and hard! He will soon have nothing to lose; and when a person losses everything and has nothing left to lose... they lose it! And we don't know what he will be capable of! Left unchecked, he could create a massive Curation Trail which would only support him and his cronies.

That said, I humbly request, again with great displeasure, that the @steemauto.app account be frozen, preventing it from executing any further upvotes. Alternatively, if possible, to protect those Steem Stakeholders who at the moment are not active, our Consensus Witnesses could revoke all posting and active authorizations granted to the account in question, and those who wish to continue trusting the @steemauto.app can reactivate those authorizations at their own risk.

The Rebirth of Steemit's Curation Trails???

We are now left with many Steemians wondering what the future holds for Steemit's Curation Trails and auto-upvotes, which for many users are important functions that help them better manage their accounts. The @italygame Witness has been working on Steem Fanbase, which offers many of the same features as Steemauto. But for the following reasons, I will not endorse this app until these issues are resolved:

As of the writing of this post, the developer has decided that the app will not be open-source
The developer has confirmed that the app contains the same risks as the present Steemauto
The developer, although he is working on solutions to eliminate the risk, has not yet found any

Suggestion for a Possible Solution

I do not know much about coding, or the inner workings of the Steem blockchain, but I think I know enough developers' vocabulary to offer up an idea. Since the problem arises from the storage of the voting rules on the developer's app, I am curious to know if it is possible to store those rules on the Steem blockchain?

From my understanding of how the Steem blockchain works, information - other than financial transactions - can be stored in categories through Custom-JSONs. This information can then be retrieved by an app, that then uses that information to perform certain functions, like upvoting, following, upvote weight, upvote time, etc. So the only thing the app has to do is, broadcast the data to the blockchain, then get the data from the blockchian and execute the command. In this way, the only way you can alter the voting rules is if the account owner authorizes the transaction. The app owner does not store, edit, create or delete anything. The app's sole function is to automatically execute the Steemian's voting rules, which are store indelibly on the blockchain. If this is possible, I would overlook the issue of the app not being open-source.

Thank you always for taking the time to consider my ideas, and thank you for supporting @famigliacurione

The Rebirth of Steemit's Curation Trails???

The Rebirth of Steemit's Curation Trails???

Suggestion for a Possible Solution

Steemauto Drama 2021