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Is that post for real? https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088

by denwer 11y ago

hughstephens 11y ago
who knows – in many ways it's even better if it's satire, because it's just believable enough.
- jacquesm 11y ago
  If it didn't have a 'most likely' in it I'd think it was satire, but that's the kind of weasel wording that you'd expect in a real release. There was another post in much the same vein on that blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can_t_do https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can...
  - tobltobs 11y ago
    "Fixability. Only Oracle can fix vulnerabilities: SASO cannot. We have the code: they don’t." Just one of many nuggets in this other arrogant posting. If somebody needs input why FOSS is better than closed source have a look into this one also.
  - brohee 11y ago
    Who's she attacking in that post (SASO)? Veracode?
    - tptacek 11y ago
      Yes. She doesn't get along with Veracode.
idlewords 11y ago
If you read her previous posts you'll see it's the exact same tone and writing style. I think the claims of hacking are a way for people to express their incredulity and not meant seriously.
- nvader 11y ago
  I hope you didn't "reverse engineer" her blog post. She's going to call up a judge and say "Nanny Nanny, Boo boo." (her own words). But in all seriousness, if the Chief Security Officer of Oracle sounds like the letters to the editor of my University Paper, why doesn't a company that big have someone from PR edit or co-write her posts?
  - idlewords 11y ago
    One terrifying possibility is that this is the edited, watered-down version of something even worse. My guess is that she's senior enough to veto attempts to salvage her prose.
- scintill76 11y ago
  ...unless the hackers also fabricated those and backdated them. Maybe that's giving them too much credit, but unless a trusted person claims to have read them in the past (and has perfect memory to claim they are unaltered too), or a trusted archive claims to have downloaded them in the past, how can you know?
  - deleted 11y ago
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juliangregorian 11y ago
Wow, she's the Chief Security Officer. I got the impression she was just a hired writer (she prefers writing murder mysteries?). This is looking really bad now, for Oracle's head of security to feel this way.
anarazel 11y ago
archive.org has a lot of the older blogposts (https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/* https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.oracle.com/marya...) and sufficiently many are old and in a similar tone that this appears to be authentic. E.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/20140313161522/https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/mandated_third_party_static_analysis https://web.archive.org/web/20140313161522/https://blogs.ora...
yellowapple 11y ago
"Hacked". Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

Is that post for real? https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088

by denwer 11y ago

Is that post for real? https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088 https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/630972473945817088

hughstephens 11y ago

who knows – in many ways it's even better if it's satire, because it's just believable enough.

jacquesm 11y ago
If it didn't have a 'most likely' in it I'd think it was satire, but that's the kind of weasel wording that you'd expect in a real release. There was another post in much the same vein on that blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can_t_do https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can...
- tobltobs 11y ago
  "Fixability. Only Oracle can fix vulnerabilities: SASO cannot. We have the code: they don’t." Just one of many nuggets in this other arrogant posting. If somebody needs input why FOSS is better than closed source have a look into this one also.
- brohee 11y ago
  Who's she attacking in that post (SASO)? Veracode?
  - tptacek 11y ago
    Yes. She doesn't get along with Veracode.

idlewords 11y ago

If you read her previous posts you'll see it's the exact same tone and writing style. I think the claims of hacking are a way for people to express their incredulity and not meant seriously.

nvader 11y ago
I hope you didn't "reverse engineer" her blog post. She's going to call up a judge and say "Nanny Nanny, Boo boo." (her own words). But in all seriousness, if the Chief Security Officer of Oracle sounds like the letters to the editor of my University Paper, why doesn't a company that big have someone from PR edit or co-write her posts?
- idlewords 11y ago
  One terrifying possibility is that this is the edited, watered-down version of something even worse. My guess is that she's senior enough to veto attempts to salvage her prose.
scintill76 11y ago
...unless the hackers also fabricated those and backdated them. Maybe that's giving them too much credit, but unless a trusted person claims to have read them in the past (and has perfect memory to claim they are unaltered too), or a trusted archive claims to have downloaded them in the past, how can you know?
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]

juliangregorian 11y ago

Wow, she's the Chief Security Officer. I got the impression she was just a hired writer (she prefers writing murder mysteries?). This is looking really bad now, for Oracle's head of security to feel this way.

anarazel 11y ago

archive.org has a lot of the older blogposts (https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/* https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blogs.oracle.com/marya...) and sufficiently many are old and in a similar tone that this appears to be authentic. E.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/20140313161522/https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/mandated_third_party_static_analysis https://web.archive.org/web/20140313161522/https://blogs.ora...

yellowapple 11y ago

"Hacked". Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.