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Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows
From: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:20:08 -0400
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 () 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 () e18 physik tu-muenchen de] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:58 AM To: Lamont Granquist Cc: Chad Perrin; Crispin Cowan; Casper.Dik () Sun COM; Gadi Evron;pdp(architect); bugtraq () securityfocus com; full- disclosure () 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 notevenmade public by (back-channel) sharing amongst thehacker/crackercommunity. The exploit is only made public if detected or the vulnerability is disclosed. Until detected/disclosed thehacker/cracker can use their 31337 0day spl01tz to break intowhichevervulnerable machines they like. 0day exploits are valuablebecause theopposition is ignorant of them. Posting exploits to BUGTRAQ, however, inherently makes themnot0day...And my ignorant self thought until this thread that the "0" inthe termreferred to the number of days of head start granted to thevendor.Silly me. Because that would make all vulnerabilities publishedwithoutprior warning to the vendor a "0day"... Roland (who seems to remember that this was once the meaning ofthisterm)
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