Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system
Very cool that he found a flaw in the algorithm<p>But this is really the antithesis of what a zero-day originally was, which was a crack circulated on <i>or even before</i> the release day of software[0].  The Alto is 45 years old :)<p>Odd how words and phrases can change so much over a short period of time that they invert their meaning.<p>[0] that's what it meant in the early / mid 1990s when I was peripherally involved.  Now it seems to mean 'zero days of notification to the vendor'.