On 2008-12-14, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:25:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> There is no way to solve this problem. So long as humans write software,
> they will write software with flaws that can be exploited. And as soon as
> Linux becomes large enough to be a viable source of income for the
> attackers, they will start appearing for Linux too.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Maybe you should take the show on the road with
Michael Sh1T and give /everybody/ a chance at some laughs.
--
What something is, depends more on when it is, than anything else.
-- Frank Zappa
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