On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:25:30PM -0700, Zow Terry Brugger wrote: > > As a professional, I would be happy to see terms like '0day' banished > > from the lexicon entirely. It's an essentially meaningless -- all > > third-party exploits are zero-day to _somebody_ -- term of boast co- > > opted from the warez scene, and we can do perfectly well without it. > > I'd accept that. Can we agree on a term that means: "Right now you're > learning about a vulnerability for which there is a working exploit, and no > way to protect yourself short of impacting the availability of your systems > by unplugging them or disabling the affected service."? > > I'd propose "unpatched vulnerability with known working exploit", but it's > kind of verbose, and I don't think some of the kids joining our ranks can > string that many complete words together anymore (too much texting). UV:WE Unpatched Vulnerability: Working Exploit . . . or maybe "zero day exploit". -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
