From: Lawrence Paul MacIntyre (macintyrelpornl.gov)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 14:12:23 CDT

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Daylight come and me wanna go home...

This one time, at band camp, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic
> security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working
> all night on a drink of rum. It's true. Really.
>
> t
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roland Kuhn [mailto:rkuhne18.physik.tu-muenchen.de]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM
>> To: Lamont Granquist
>> Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.DikSun.COM; Gadi Evron; pdp
>> (architect); bugtraqsecurityfocus.com; full-
>> disclosurelists.grok.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows
>>
>> On 25 Sep 2007, at 00:57, Lamont Granquist wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The exploit is not made public by its use. The exploit is not even
>>> made public by (back-channel) sharing amongst the hacker/cracker
>>> community. The exploit is only made public if detected or the
>>> vulnerability is disclosed. Until detected/disclosed the hacker/
>>> cracker can use their 31337 0day spl01tz to break into whichever
>>> vulnerable machines they like. 0day exploits are valuable because
>>>
> the
>
>>> opposition is ignorant of them.
>>>
>>> Posting exploits to BUGTRAQ, however, inherently makes them not
>>> 0day...
>>>
>> And my ignorant self thought until this thread that the "0" in the
>>
> term
>
>> referred to the number of days of head start granted to the vendor.
>> Silly me. Because that would make all vulnerabilities published
>>
> without
>
>> prior warning to the vendor a "0day"...
>>
>> Roland (who seems to remember that this was once the meaning of this
>> term)
>>

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