El Oscuro’s Comments

• Apr 25th, 2021 @ 8:37pm

  Re: Cancer

  on Oracle's Projection: As It Accuses Google Of Snooping On You, It Has Built A Huge Data Operation That It Doesn't Want Regulated

  I have always thought of Larry as a sleazy used car salesman, but his recent Trump support has lowered my opinion of him considerably.

• Apr 25th, 2021 @ 8:30pm

  Re:

  on Oracle's Projection: As It Accuses Google Of Snooping On You, It Has Built A Huge Data Operation That It Doesn't Want Regulated

  As some one who has managed non-cloud Oracle databases for almost 30 years, no they do not "phone home". These days I am mostly on the red team, and have analyzed network traffic from the database. There has never been a packet sent from a database to an internet address without a developer coding one with UTL_TCP/UTL_HTTP.

  On the other hand, Microsoft does phone home, and not just Windows 10. While pen testing an internal corporate web application with an intercepting proxy using IE8 and Windows 7, my intercepting proxy (Burp Suite) picked up an out of bound request sent to https://urs.microsoft.com/. This request contained an XML payload with my entire request to the corporate app which included my userid and password. This is a straight up man in the middle attack by IE8.

• Sep 16th, 2018 @ 9:26am

  Re: Re: Right to Forget

  on Google Fights In EU Court Against Ability Of One Country To Censor The Global Internet

  I went on the Internet and checked. I'm still pretty sure they don't run the Internet.