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Fast Company staff — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:34 -0400

Subject: [Full-disclosure] Another 0day to sell.
From: Juergen Marester
Date: Wed Sep 12 2007 - 14:42:35 CDT

Thanks for people who bought me codes since my last post.

I also have other 0day to sell. Contact by e-mail.

From: XXXXX@XXX
To: Juergen Marester
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:03:56 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Another 0day to sell.

what product?

The Black Market Code Industry

Adam L. Penenberg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:17 -0400

Juergen Marester, a 24-year-old French network consultant, needed seed capital to start his own computer-security company. So he turned to his off-hours hobby -- black-hat hacking -- and did what a growing number of hackers are doing: selling "0days" (pronounced "oh-days" or "zero days," it generally refers to unknown, or zero-hour, software threats). These are recipes and code for penetrating the software run by governments, corporations, and private citizens.