To the chap who siad its not a DB issue - I will check with Oracle but I'mThe chap was me :-) I'm sure it does on oracle. Once you have an Oracle installation and got hold of all database files (which is easy once an intruder got root on the machine) you have access to all data. Even oracle can't do anything about this, but there might be two difficulties with oracle compared to mysql: You need the oracle software (expensive, but do hackers buy software?) and it might be that the files are spread all over the computer and hard to find. But basically, it is the same with oracle (but I never used oracle, this is common sense).
sure that dropping in a directory in oracle will not give you full access
to a database (a clear one that is)
Stefan
It isn't quite as simple as copying the datafiles to a new server and opening the Oracle database. There are controlfiles to deal with and a somewhat complex process to follow. But, Oracle documentation and Oracle database software is freely downloadable over the net, so a determined theif would be able to access your data without too much problem.
It is far easier, however, if you can root an Oracle box, to become the software owner, change the sys/system password (database root), export the database and either import that file into another Oracle database or just do a strings on it to get readable data.
You can do all that, anyway, faster than copying all of the datafiles off the server.
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Glenn Stauffer
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