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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:The first Slashdot troll post investigation by Faux_Pseudo · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Was I the only person who thought of the reprocutions of the meta-moderation?
    Emagin lots and lots of users with the ability to kill someones chances of moderating with a fair/unfair rulling. I would not be suprised to see that meta-moderation was suspended till this thread is arcived.

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  2. Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation by mojo-raisin · · Score: -1, Interesting

    no. My comment is quite "insightful." no?

    But seriously, there are *many* stories where it seems 50% of the comments are funny comments of this variety - not to pick on this particular poster, but it was immediately accessable and very indicative of the typical "funny" comment - ones that require the poster to be seeped in at least 3 hours of sitcom humor a day. It is very typical of the sitcom humor breed and detracts from the overall interest of /.