bugtraq - Re: defining 0day

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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:51:30 -0500
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy@...il.com>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@...uxbox.org>
Cc: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@...merofgod.com>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, "Chad Perrin" <perrin@...theon.com>,
	"Crispin Cowan" <crispin@...ell.com>, Casper.Dik@....com,
	"pdp (architect)" <pdp.gnucitizen@...glemail.com>,
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk,
	"Lamont Granquist" <lamont@...iptkiddie.org>,
	"Roland Kuhn" <rkuhn@....physik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: defining 0day

On 9/25/07, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> 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?


Seems to me that definitions, and language itself, is a product of
evolution. You can't just remove all previous meanings. Its better
anyway to stick to the most accepted, acknowledged and DOCUMENTED
definitions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0day

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zero%20day

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=what+is+0day&gwp=13

Even better:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:DERnyW4MM4wJ:nujia.norwich.edu/current/2_2_art01.pdf+origins+of+zero+day+definition&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=firefox-a
or
http://nujia.norwich.edu/current/2_2_art01.pdf