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____/ Mart van de Wege on Sunday 14 December 2008 23:01 : \____
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> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:25:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Isn't there a "zero-day Wednesday"? One day after the patches arrive a new
>>> 0-day is usually scheduled to surface in the form of attacks that make
>>> botnets.
>>
>> Yes, there is, but as usually you completely misunderstand every bit about
>> it.
>>
>> It's 0-day Wednesday because the attackers reverse engineer the patches to
>> determine how the flaw works, then they write code to exploit it, releasing
>> it the next day.
>
> How do you know? Are you asserting that *all* zero-day exploits are
> reverse-engineered from the patches? Surely you are not *that* stupid?
They are not. He's embellishing.
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