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ahoge · on Jan 16, 2015

> It is called a "zero-day" because the programmer has had zero days to fix the flaw

username223 · on Jan 20, 2015

Did you read what you just linked? Specifically, the part after the open parenthesis? The bit about the patch not being available?

> It is called a "zero-day" because the programmer has had zero days to fix the flaw (in other words, a patch is not available).

Please try again.