Since Oracle's licensing agreement includes the provision that customers "may not reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Programs," the ...

A scathing and now-deleted blog entry from Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson said that the company does not welcome security researchers who point out flaws in its software and warned ...

Davidson said Oracle has seen a large uptick in customers and consultants actively reverse engineering Oracle software to search for security vulnerabilities. While this is understandable given ...

The post set off an immediate firestorm in the security industry, which—aside from Oracle—has increasingly adopted a friendly attitude toward reverse engineers and benign hackers.