Oracle: Market forces fail to make software secure
Published: 26 May 2006 14:20 BST
Oracle's chief security officer has hit out at a software market in which "most software people are not trained to think in terms of safety, security and reliability", and instead are wedded to a culture of "patch, patch, patch" at a cost to industry of $59bn.
Speaking at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh on Thursday, Oracle's Mary-Ann Davidson also claimed that the British were particularly good at hacking as they have "the perfect temperament to be hackers — technically skilled, slightly disrespectful of authority and just a touch of criminal behaviour".
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