When I first read an online rant by Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson, I pinged the software provider's PR, asking if the blog post was legitimate. While I'm yet to receive a response, ...

And reverse engineering can shorten development cycles of ontology and various database models. On this basis, we propose formal definition of FOOD models and fuzzy OWL 2 ontologies.

Oracle's CSO wrote that a lot of security scanning tools are serving up "a pile of steaming … FUD," and warns not to reverse engineer Oracle's code.

The post set off an immediate firestorm in the security industry, which—aside from Oracle—has increasingly adopted a friendly attitude toward reverse engineers and benign hackers.