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Re: 0day: PDF pwns Windows



Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic
security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working
all night on a drink of rum.  It's true.  Really.

That's not true at all; after leaving the Little Rascals TV show, William Thomas (Buckwheat) entered the fledgling field of security research. Whenever he'd discover a vulnerability, he'd shout "O-tay!". His peers soon started calling vulnerabilities "O-tays" and through typos and accents it eventually morphed into "O-days".