Since Oracle's licensing agreement includes the provision that customers "may not reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Programs," the ...

What she said in 2015 was that security reports based on reverse-engineering Oracle code and then applying static or dynamic analysis to it does not lead to “proof of an actual vulnerability ...

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.

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.

Davidson said Oracle has seen a large uptick in customers and consultants actively reverse engineering Oracle software to search for security vulnerabilities. While this is understandable given ...