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Locking down 18c XE

NickeNJul 3 2020 — edited Sep 5 2020

I have some sensitive data I wish to install in an Oracle 18c XE database on Windows in a way that only a specific oracle user with a specific password of my choosing can acces the data. I've googled around and not found any information at all really. TDE looks really nice, passwords can be changed etc. But in the end, the user that installed the database can use 'sqlplus / as sysdba' to turn it all around, or even orapwd.exe I guess.

Is Oracle databases in general not appropriate for installation/usage in such a hostile environment or am I missing someting?

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NickR2600-Oracle

Ah, is this the bug?

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I have a story about that... It has to do with the order that collision detection lines are checked and the angle of incidence. The collision lines around each piece of level geometry are kept in List. When the ball collides with the first triangle (shown on the bottom-left corner of the screenshot), there are two possible collision lines: a diagonal on the left side of the shape, and a flat line at the bottom of the shape. It must be the case that the diagonal line is first in the list, so this is the line used to determine the angle of reflection. The angle of reflection is something that's looked up by the program. It's not something determined by physics. In the case of the second triangle (shown on the bottom-left corner of the screenshot), the flat line at the bottom of the shape appears sooner in the List than the diagonal. I must have forgotten to state what happens when a flat line is struck from the right or left. So the game thinks a collision is happening, but does nothing to change the angle of the ball, so the collision keeps happening over and over.. I remember when I was originally developing the game, I was short on time and thought "This bug is funny. I'll leave it in". I think most of the levels are designed carefully enough that a bug like this can't occur too often.

OTG-467455

Yes that is one of the bugs.  The other one I noticed is where the ball cuts through the level geometry on the line between the blocks.

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