Definition of 0-Day
Gubbe Gubbesen
"0-day" is a term used in the Warez-scene to describe the releases by
all the cracking/warez/release groups on that particular day. These
releases are moved around the world to 0-day dump-sites (FTP's) by
"couriers" for the various groups. Some dump-sites also connect to
other dump-sites via FXP ( server to server transfer protocol) and
keep each-other "synched") so that these dump-sites can have as nearly
complete a feed of the day's releases as possible.
0-day warez are posted exactly as released by the release groups. The
zips are not altered in any way, except that some posters/sites remove
extraneous "nfo" files that are put into the zips by some sites or
couriers. This can help to hide the path the files took to the
dump-site(s) that are supplying the warez that is being posted.
One of the beauties of 0-day warez being posted (and archived) in this
fashion, is that it is possible to get a fill at some distant time in
the future from a 'careful archivist'. If you have the March 15th
2001 Paradox release of 'such-and-such' archived to CD, and your hard
disk crashes, so that you lost the installed app- then you went to CD
and found that one of the zips had "gone-bad", you could be screwed--
except that since you had the original archives and know their
specifics, you can go and ask on Usenet or IRC for the specific zip by
name from that particular release. Someone will likely have it, and
you can restore your system. If you pull the RARs and delete the zips
you have almost certainly lost your chance to restore, and will have
to search-out the entire application again.
Some dump-sites are better served by couriers than others, but these
are also more exposed and vulnerable to be taken down by
"anti-evaluation forces" who don't want people to fully test the
software, usually because it doesn't really work. (Once you break the
shrink-wrap it's yours- they have your money and there's not a thing
you can do about it if the software doesn't perform as advertised. And
that is exactly the way the software dragons and their
"bought-and-paid-for" legislators want to keep it.)
A 0-day site is organized by date. Everything the courier has that was
released on April 15th, for example, s/he will deposit in a directory
on the dump-site named 0415 (mmdd)- creating a sub-directory for it
with the name and version # and release group name, such as:
Wise_for_Windows_Installer_Professional_v4.02-PARADOX
This is to make it simple for the site-operator and other couriers to
see what has been delivered. Very often a particular release will be
brought to a site by different couriers on different days, so 0414 and
0415 might both contain the same release. No biggie.
People with 0-day "access" are allowed onto these 0-day dump-sites to
both upload and download warez. This warez very quickly finds it way
to places other than the regular dump-sites: Web pages, private FTP's,
IRC, etc. One of the places it ends up is Usenet. People with 0-day
access (very often group couriers themselves) will post some of the
material to Usenet. This is new material that no one has had an
opportunity to test yet, least of all the poster who probably only
just looked on the dump-site, saw an "interesting-looking" application
name, grabbed it and posted it with few or no checks at all.
Prolific posters who do this on a regular basis may grab dozens of
applications to post daily. They have no time to check them, except
perhaps to virus scan them. Many times they are taken and posted based
solely on the application's name. Typically the poster hasn't got a
clue as to the workings of the application, the crack, or anything
else about the application.
Such posters are acting as couriers, moving the material from the
dump-sites to Usenet- they have no chance to do anything with it. The
0-day material stays on the dump-site for a limited time (depending on
the storage and daily volume of the site) - and on the poster's drives
for a limited time. They post most or all of what they get, when they
get it. After it's posted, it's either deleted or burned to CD or DVD,
or whatever other long-term storage the poster may have.
Asking such posters for specific applications is highly unlikely to
produce a positive result. Generally speaking, if they get it, they
post it when they get it. So asking for something in a 0-day group, or
of a 0-day poster, is usually a waste of time. But go ahead and ask if
you think, or know, that an application was recently released. Many
posters have taken more than they have uploaded to Usenet (bandwidth
there being a major consideration- and time to prepare
and post) and may have what you're looking for on their hard drive.
Asking a "0-day" poster for an application you know was released 6
weeks ago or more, for example, is most likely a waste of time.
Chances are very slim that he/she even remembers it, much less still
has it. But you never know, and someone else might see the request and
fill it for you. But such requests are best made to non-0-day groups,
and non-0-day posters, for the reasons mentioned."
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