bugtraq - Re: defining 0day

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0709251459100.25733@linuxbox.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:59:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org>
To: Brian Loe <knobdy@...il.com>
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 Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Brian Loe wrote:
> 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:

No longer good enough.

We can get a press scare over a public vuln release, or a wake-up call.

I think we can do better as an industry.