Steve Shockley
01/10/07, 22:28
Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic
> security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working
> all night on a drink of rum. It's true. Really.
That's not true at all; after leaving the Little Rascals TV show,
William Thomas (Buckwheat) entered the fledgling field of security
research. Whenever he'd discover a vulnerability, he'd shout "O-tay!".
His peers soon started calling vulnerabilities "O-tays" and through
typos and accents it eventually morphed into "O-days".
> For the record, the original term "O-Day" was coined by a dyslexic
> security engineer who listened to too much Harry Belafonte while working
> all night on a drink of rum. It's true. Really.
That's not true at all; after leaving the Little Rascals TV show,
William Thomas (Buckwheat) entered the fledgling field of security
research. Whenever he'd discover a vulnerability, he'd shout "O-tay!".
His peers soon started calling vulnerabilities "O-tays" and through
typos and accents it eventually morphed into "O-days".