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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why people studying cyber operations are fascinated by 0days. These are vulnerabilities or exploits that have been found in a system before the vendor or manufacturer is made aware of them and so therefore no fix exists.

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Between Two Nerds: The 0day fetish

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