Policy on download access to CPU's (security patches)

Does Oracle provide access to OTN members for security patches, namely the most recent, October CPU for Oracle 10g rel 2? Or, is this access available only for those with metalink access?

I'm honestly trying to understand the security risk here.
If you're using the OTN license, then there are a limited number of Oracle databases installed on development machines in your organization with no access to the internet and no sensitive data. The vast majority of development machines I've ever seen are horifically vulnerable because no one bothers to spend the time locking them down in the first place-- it's a lot easier to attack a system when the front and back door aren't locked than to figure out how to infiltrate through the chimney. I've never seen a licensed organization where patches were applied to every Oracle database on every laptop, every application server on every laptop, the FTP server that got installed on some random dev machine for testing, etc. I can't imagine a shop where Oracle wasn't even in production wanting to go through that effort every quarter.
Oracle virii and worms are, while not impossible, are extremely rare, so the risks tend to come from attackers explicitly targetting a system, and no one is going to attack a dev system with no production data.
Even if the worst happens and one of your dev databases is compromised, what is the loss? At worst, you uninstall Oracle and reinstall and a developer has lost an hour of their life. I'd wager that it would take way more time to apply the patch (and fix all the little things that the developers forgot at the time) than to rebuild the database if it were lost.
If I'm missing an important attack vector or security concern, I'd certainly be interested in hearing about it. At the moment, though, I just don't see a cause for concern.
Justin

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