[Full-disclosure] defining 0day
Charles Miller
cmiller at pastiche.org
Tue Sep 25 21:40:52 BST 2007
On 26/09/2007, at 5:02 AM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> Okay. I think we exhausted the different views, and maybe we are
> now able to come to a conlusion on what we WANT 0day to mean.
>
> What do you, as professional, believe 0day should mean, regardless
> of previous definitions?
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.
Quibbling over its precise definition seems a ridiculous waste of bytes.
C
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