Apparently, the etymology of the term goes back to the Warez days, as mentioned in Jason Scott's (awesome, by the way) Defcon talk: http://vimeo.com/15400820 h

Apparently, the etymology of the term goes back to the Warez days, as mentioned in Jason Scott's (awesome, by the way) Defcon talk: http://vimeo.com/15400820 http://vimeo.com/15400820 While the term means something differed when applied to a vulnerability (the Warez definition comes from how many days after software was released before the crack was available), it's similar.