[Full-disclosure] New term "RDV" is born

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:29:51 BST, worried security said:

> Two months is still recently. Think about "In recent history we invaded
> Iraq", "In recent times terrorism has become more prominent".

The real problem here is that "0-day" originally meant "previously undisclosed
vulnerability/exploit".  The term lost its usefulness when all the hacker
wannabe's started posting "I found a 0-day", when what they really had was
a "*yawn*-we've-been-waiting-18-months-for-vendor-to-fix-day".

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