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by TeMPOraL 2849 days ago
What? First time I hear of it. Not infosec, and yet I was under impression for years now that in colloquial usage, "0day" means "exploited before the problem was known publicly". It stops being a 0day after any info about it hits the press/social media.
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A cursory search ( https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22patched+zero-day%22 ) reveals many industry sources misusing it following that definition. How can a 0day ever possibly be considered "patched" if the vendor had no knowledge of what the patch is for? etc.
Once a zero-day, always a zero-day IMO.
What is it called the day after you are aware of it. Zero day still? That makes no sense.
It makes sense if you think of the identifier "zero day" as a sort of birth-identity.

As far as I'm aware 0day refers to having zero days of notice to fix the bug. That doesn't change the day after it comes out, it's still zero days of notice.