From: Curt Purdy (purdy@tecman.com)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2006 - 13:36:54 EDT
Robertson, Seth
>It's paradoxical that a
> "security" product would contain an Oracle database. Oracle
> isn't just
> terrible at patching vulnerabilities, they seem to be
> outright dedicated
> to producing an insecure product.
<snip>
Yeah Seth, remember when Oracle came out and said their 8.0 product was
"un-hackable"? Still laughing at that. As bad as Netscape when they came
out with the first 48-bit encryption that two Southern Cal grad students
cracked in two weeks using the university's mainfframes at night.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA
Information Security Officer
Information Systems Security
infosysec.net
443.846.4231
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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke
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