Oracle's Lunacy
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No, You Really Can’t
Writing mysteries is a lot more fun than the other type of writing I’ve been doing. Recently, I have seen a large-ish uptick in customers reverse engineering our code to attempt to find security vulnerabilities in it. This is why I’ve been writing a lot of letters to customers that start with “hi, howzit, aloha” but end with “please comply with your license agreement and stop reverse engineering our code, already.”
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But you know, if Oracle's strongly-worded letters are written in Davidson's style, I think I'd quite enjoy the entertainment value.
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No, You Really Can’t (Mary Ann Davidson Blog)
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Oracle security chief to customers: Stop checking our code for vulnerabilities [Updated]
Perhaps thinking that all the security researchers in the world were busy recovering from Black Hat and DEF CON and would be somehow more pliant to her earnest message, Mary Ann Davidson wrote a stern message to customers entitled "No, You Really Can't" (here in Google's Web cache; it's also been reproduced on SecLists.org in the event that Oracle gets Google to remove the cached copy). Her message: stop scanning Oracle's code for vulnerabilities or we will come after you. "I’ve been writing a lot of letters to customers that start with 'hi, howzit, aloha'," Davidson wrote, "but end with 'please comply with your license agreement and stop reverse engineering our code, already.'"
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Oracle pulls CSO's BONKERS anti-bug bounty and infosec rant
While other IT industry heavyweights have embraced bug bounties and working with security researchers more generally, Oracle has set its face in the opposite direction in a blog post likening reverse engineering to cheating on your spouse.
Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer (CSO), expressed corporate dislike from the software giant for both reverse engineers and bug bounties in a long blog post on Monday. The post was pulled on Tuesday lunchtime, but its contents remain available via the Internet Archive here.
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Oracle to 'sinner' customers: Reverse engineering is a sin and we know best
Opinion: Stop sending vulnerability reports already. Oracle's chief security officer wants to go back to writing murder mysteries.
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