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Forever-Day Bugs

Bruce Schneier Posted by Bruce Schneier | Tue, 17 Apr 2012
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That's a nice turn of phrase: Forever day is a play on "zero day," a phrase used to classify vulnerabilities that come under attack before the responsible manufacturer has issued a patch. Also called iDays, or "infinite days" by some researchers, forever days refer to bugs that never get fixed­--even when they're acknowledged by the company that developed the software....


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