IDG Contributor Network: Oracle to ‘sinners’: ‘Stop reverse engineering our code, already’

According to Oracle’s Chief Security Officer, Mary Ann Davidson, who also happen to write murder mysteries, customers “really can’t” reverse engineer Oracle’s code to find security vulnerabilities in order to protect themselves and their users.

Recently, I have seen a large-ish uptick in customers reverse engineering our code to attempt to find security vulnerabilities in it,” She wrote in a company blog. “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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