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Any subsequent valid points she makes - and there aren't many - are undermined by this bitterness.
Heightened emotion so often enables effective communication, but it doesn't do any favors in this post.
> Q. If you don’t let customers reverse engineer code, they won’t buy anything else from you. > A. I actually heard this from a customer. It was ironic because in order for them to buy more products from us (or use a cloud service offering), they’d have to sign – a license agreement! With the same terms that the customer had already admitted violating. “Honey, if you won’t let me cheat on you again, our marriage is t…
I laughed at this line where she tries to prove her point by touting that Oracle already found a bug that a security researcher reported to them (but wasn't fixed yet): "(Small digression: I was busting my buttons today when I found out that a well-known security researcher in a particular area of technology reported a bunch of alleged security issues to us except – we had already found all of them and we were alread…
I laughed at this line where she tries to prove her point by touting that Oracle already found a bug that a security researcher reported to them (but wasn't fixed yet): "(Small digression: I was busting my buttons today when I found out that a well-known security researcher in a particular area of technology reported a bunch of alleged security issues to us except – we had already found all of them and we were alread…
Is it just me, or is the childish, mocking tone in the OP simultaneously baffling and totally befitting of the point they're trying to make? I understand that they're frustrated by the repeated submission of automated security vulnerability reports, but blanketing it entirely as "reverse engineering" and responding to it like this is... a strange approach. Did someone at Oracle actually think that this was the best w…
Yeah, it's very poorly written. I always cringe when some exec thinks "oh, it's just a blog so I don't have to write with the same professionalism and attention to detail that I would in other corporate communications".
Reverse engineering is legal in France for research and computer security ( http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTE... ).
Wow. Someone's been hitting the Kool-Aid pretty hard. I've seen this institutional hubris first-hand. The unshakable belief (typically by nontechnical management) that all of the smartest people in the world are employed here , working for me . It always ends badly.
I literally can't touch a Government project without an Oracle license. When I talk to a salesman, the attitude is "I know you can't do this without me", contrary to salesmen for any other product in any other industry.
When I talk to a project manager, they don't ask how it will be hosted, or what the platform will be, or anything else obvious. The first question, often before a project is fined, is "how many Oracle licenses can I buy?".