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by chewyfruitloop 1728 days ago
0-day ... what they mean is .... I found an issue. Its hardly a 0-day, they've not posted any evidence of it actually being used in the wild, just that "it can be used". Why is a normal "ooh look a bug or two" all of a sudden hair on fire world is burning news.... oh yeh ... I get more attention this way by exaggerating

Apple may have a terrible bug bounty and response process ... but call a spade a spade

... I saw a bird this morning ... help theres dinosaurs on the loose!!!!

2 comments

What is your definition of 0-day? Because they are exactly right, this is a 0-day. Whether it's already actively being exploited or not has no bearing on the definition.

I'll refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing) to make up your own mind.

normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already ... not a bug thats been found, reported and "ignored"

this seems to be a zero day just because Apple haven't seen fit to respond the the reporter

> normally I'd define it as something found in the wild being exploited already

Yeah, but ... that's not what it means. You can choose to define "spoon" as "fork" too, but I don't see how it's useful to go around complaining about other people using the actual definition of the word.

A zero day is a zero day, regardless of whether it's been exploited in the wild. There's a decent chance that well-funded bad actors have already found these, and you have no idea whether they've been used or not.