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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. Proof positive of non-human censorship by GnulixRulz · · Score: -1, Troll
    Nobody's pointed out yet, that if postings were actually moderated off-topic by a real human (or at least through that interface), one would receive a message in the slashdot mailbox notifying him of that.

    My earlier post has been given (score+1) off-topic ratings to push it to -1, but NO messages to that effect have been posted to my account.

    RESIGN! RESIGN!

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    Shame of Slashdot
  2. Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation by Procrasti · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am getting so annoyed at this. Everyone *thinks* that this was done by normal moderation means. I *know* it wasn't.

    There were multiple posts, about 20 or so, just discussing the moderation system. They were scored between -1 and 5. I was refreshing the page about once every three minutes. It takes time for a post's moderation to change - moderations aren't done all that often. Then *BAM*, every post went to -1. In just a couple of minutes (a single page refresh). It wasn't until someone posted something that couldn't be bitchslapped to -1 for being offtopic (it was ontopic) that the 'users' had to keep this thread in check by hand.

    The problem is, it now *looks* like it was moderated down using the standard moderation system (you know, those 5 points they give you). It *wasn't*.

    Still don't believe me? -- Jamie admits modding offtopic posts with unlimmited mod points

  3. Well, clearly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's because they don't use Oracle, they use MySQL. (See, ON TOPIC, mofos!)

  4. Re:editors finished? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    here's one

    homo

  5. Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation by Mr+Thinly+Sliced · · Score: -1, Troll

    Insightfull, is posting details of how you've acheived cold fusion in a sock. Repeating all the wank about the crap flooders and trolls only qualifies as redundant. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Mr Poopy Pants.