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The bug that became a feature for someone who wasn't you.
means To use something — a situation, a weakness, or a person — for your own advantage, often skillfully and sometimes unfairly.
from From Old French 'esploit,' meaning a result, achievement, or profit, itself rooted in Latin 'explicare' — 'to unfold' or 'unpack.' The same root gives us 'explicate.' So 'exploit' once just meant unfolding a situation to see what could be gotten from it — the shift from 'noble deed' (as in 'heroic exploits') to 'using someone/something for gain' happened over centuries, as the word's heroic sense and its opportunistic sense grew side by side until the sneakier one took over in common usage.
- zero-day value
- worth more unpatched than patched
- root cause
- trusting input you never should have
- dual meaning
- heroic deed or hacker's tool, same word
- shelf life
- dies the moment it's famous