Re: New term "RDV" is born

["worried security" <worriedsecurity () googlemail com>]

On 9/28/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> 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".



Yes, Valdis, and thats why a new modern term for 0-day is needed. Forget
0-day, its the past, RDV is the future.

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