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Do You Have The Time?

Posted by timothy on from the what's-the-time-mister-wolf dept.

RetroGeek writes: "This ZDNet article talks about the perils of the PC clock. And (something I did not know) that Windows XP and Mac OS X both automatically get a time stamp from MicroSoft and Apple respectively. At any rate, my home firewall gets the time every hour from the NIST servers, then each of the machines on my LAN query the time server daemon on the firewall. That way all my home network machines have the same time. And latency on the LAN is next to zero. Now if I can only get my VCR connected. Anyone else running a time server?" So how do you get the time?

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  1. IP spoofing target by RichMan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ok, this is bad. A somewhat critical state of the OS is dependant on a blindly connected service. Please tell me the time server is authenticated fully and unbreakably. Hah.
    Just wait for
    1) MS to implement expirable licenses on all software
    2) someone to break the authentication service
    3) IP spoofing of the time server to a clock set 100 years in the future when everyones time based license has expired

    The result is instant crippling of all MS licenses!

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Insightful

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