Oracle yanks blog post critical of security vendors, customers

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2969378/security/oracle-yanks-blog-post-critical-of-security-vendors-customers.html

By Joab Jackson
IDG News Service
Aug 11, 2015

Oracle published, then quickly deleted, a blog post criticizing 
third-party security consultants and the enterprise customers who use 
them.

Authored by Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson, the post 
sharply admonished enterprise customers for reverse engineering, or hiring 
consultants to reverse engineer, the company's proprietary software, with 
the aim of finding as of yet unfixed security vulnerabilities.

The missive, entitled "No, You Really Can't," was issued Monday on 
Davidson's corporate blog, then pulled a few hours later. The Internet 
Archive captured a copy of the post.

"We removed the post as it does not reflect our beliefs or our 
relationship with our customers," wrote Edward Screven, Oracle executive 
vice president and chief corporate architect, in a statement emailed 
Tuesday.

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