Oracle Exec Strikes Out At 'Patch' Mentality

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has an article up discussing comments by Oracle's Chief Security Officer railing against the culture of patching that exists in the software industry." From the article: "Things are so bad in the software business that it has become 'a national security issue,' with regulation of the industry currently on the agenda, she said. 'I did an informal poll recently of chief security officers on the CSO Council, and a lot of them said they really thought the industry should be regulated,' she said, referring to the security think tank."

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Another failed cross reference

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This infuriates me to no end, when people use references they saw on the back of a cereal box beacuse they thought it was cute. FTA:

"What if civil engineers built bridges the way developers write code?" she asked. "What would happen is that you would get the blue bridge of death appearing on your highway in the morning."

Im sorry, but there are crazy people scanning my highway for open ports and i dont see script kiddies pinging my roads. Graffati aside, they are left alone. Code that is written works just fine if people dont try to over flow buffers and install rootkits. The bridge I see out of my window is fine because people dont hit it with sledge hammers.



Just my 2 cents . . . .

For those who do not know Oracle:

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They are the company who have the worst user interface tools on the planet.

The GUI's would have sucked in the 1980's.

Every SQL statement was designed by a dfferent person, with a different syntax.

If the guy expects us to assume he is an authority on the subject, he should clean up his own rubbish first.