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> I wonder how Oracle knows which contacts to email.

Track downloads by IP, map IP to company network, call that company. The same way they're using for VirtualBox.

> Does the Oracle Java SE phone home?

Never heard of that and I doubt it.

They senza email to people in their cms (if you have other contracts) or browsing your web site... sending to the wrong people of course especially if your web sito is not in English.

Received a mail for VirtualBox 10 days ago.

This happened at my former workplace for the VirtualBox Extension Pack, so legal told IT to just block their domain all together and to scan for it being installed. We instead used VMWare since we had site licensing for it.

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