New Technology : Oracle Wants You To Stop Sending Them Bugs – Here’s Why That’s Crazy

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Oracle is in hot water this week over a blog post written by their security chief, Mary Davidson. The post, though it covers a range of topics, is mostly about the practice of reporting possible security vulnerabilities to Oracle. Specifically, why you shouldn’t. “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.” Davidson explains that...

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