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Oracle Breakable After All

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-duh dept.

Billy writes "Unless you've been living in a cave, you've seen Oracle's Unbreakable campaign (Can't break it. Can't break in.), which was kicked-off by Larry Ellison personally at Comdex last November. Now U.K. security researcher David Litchfield says you can break in, thanks to at least seven different security holes in Oracle 9i, according to this SecurityFocus story. Oracle's top security manager is quoted as saying that "unbreakable" doesn't really mean unbreakable, or something."

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  1. Re:It's a law of narrative fiction. by armb · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I'm expecting Terry Pratchett to write a book about this any day now, it's right up his alley.

    Douglas Adams already did it. (At least he put a couple of paragraphs about it in one of the Hitchhiker books (to do with windows that won't open because the air-conditioning does a better job and can't possibly fail)).

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