Yesterday, Oracle’s chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson posted a rant about customers who reverse engineer Oracle products then send Oracle information on security vulnerabilities in Oracle products.
She wants customers to “stop sending vulnerability reports already” because she wants “to go back to writing murder mysteries”. I’m not kidding, the Oracle CSO wrote that.
Here’s a writeup about it at Ars Technica and another at ZDNet
Customers are doing FREE work for Oracle and she is annoyed by it. How in the world did she get the CSO job? Well, I guess she truly reflects the Peter Principle.
From Wikipedia’s Peter Principle page:
The Peter Principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and “managers rise to the level of their incompetence.”
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
