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Message-ID: <543314F7.4040002@edwardprevost.info>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:17:27 -0700
From: Ed Prevost <me@...ardprevost.info>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Who named shellshock?
On 10/6/2014 3:12 PM, Larry W. Cashdollar wrote:
> I thought it was https://twitter.com/ErrataRob
>
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx> wrote:
>
>> I don't think it happened on Twitter - using advanced search with date
>> ranges, I don't see any mentions that would predate this article,
>> which already seems to be using the term:
>>
>> http://www.csoonline.com/article/2687265/application-security/remote-exploit-in-bash-cve-2014-6271.html
>>
>> It's odd that an article posted at 8 AM on Sept 24 would have any idea
>> of how the bug is already being called by the security community,
>> especially ahead of any Twitter buzz. But both Stephane and Florian
>> implied that some of the pre-notified parties apparently started
>> leaking details to the press and were getting ready to make a splash
>> the moment it goes public, so maybe that's the explanation.
>>
>> /mz
>
>
I'm still calling it BASHINGA! :0)
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