[Full-disclosure] 0day: PDF pwns Windows

[Joey Mengele]

That was a dumb fucking joke. Please end this thread.

J

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:39:24 -0400 "Thor (Hammer of God)" 
<thor at hammerofgod.com> 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:rkuhn at e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM
>> To: Lamont Granquist
>> Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.Dik at Sun.COM; Gadi Evron; 
>pdp
>> (architect); bugtraq at securityfocus.com; full-
>> disclosure at lists.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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