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Comment by denwer | Hacker News Reader

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

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.

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?

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.

...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?

archive.org has a lot of the older blogposts (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.ora...

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

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...

"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.

Who's she attacking in that post (SASO)? Veracode?

Yes. She doesn't get along with Veracode.

"Hacked". Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

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.

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