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:rkuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM > To: Lamont Granquist > Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.Dik@xxxxxxx; Gadi Evron; pdp > (architect); bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; full- > disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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)
