"zero Days" Illustrate Society's Vulnerability To Hackers

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The Washington Post takes a look at cyber weaknesses, profiling one professional hacker and how he exposes weaknesses in software.

They lie in programming code -- the very code that allows for the Internet and iPhones has made societies profoundly vulnerable, the Post says. In this case the hacker, Charlie Miller, uses a so-called "zero day" to hack an iPhone.  A zero day is a software vulnerability that has never been made public and for which there is no known fix.