👉 Okay, alright settle down class, let’s tackle this… rather prickly bit of late-night internet jargon. You stumbled upon the baffling utterance: 0!0!0!
— (zero, zero, zero, hyphen, asterisk) exploits. Now, before you start picturing a little numbered dude hacking into your microwave, let's unpack that mess.
Basically. and I mean basically, it’s about extremely early-stage vulnerability hunting, in the absolutely wretched realm of software development and cybersecurity. Historically, around 2016, there was this weird, almost obsessive trend amongst elite pen testers (the guys who try to hack stuff for money – legitimately, you hope) to document and brag about finding flaws before anyone even knew they existed . You'd find a critical backdoor, then immediately announce it on the internet. This was seen as supremely impressive! The notation "0!0!0! " (notice the emphatic zeroes and that aggressive asterisk—it’s practically shouting of frantic competitive pressure) came to designate the absolute first documented instance of that specific vulnerability. Like, before a vendor even had their CISO sitting on it, before they'd even gotten around to writing a hotfix, there was 0!0!0! \ Essentially, the earlier you expose this weakness, the more "loot point-one— (I just made that up; don’t actually use that. It gets ridiculous.)
