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by ashurov 2597 days ago
the article refers to "The origin of 0-day (zero-day) in hacking (etymology of zero-day)". Thus not the warez scene. It was taken from the warez scene by the hackers scene, but the interest is in when the first reference was used within the hackers scene for so-called exploits that haven't made the public yet or are so new that they are still referred to as 0-days.