I'm not going to speculate about this specific incident - there is too little information to form a solid opinion.
Stories like this highlight a problem in the country at large, however. We have reached an age where its not that unlikely that the government, putatively a government of our peers, can monitor us en masse. We have reached an age where low-grade harrassment is a tool of domestic policy. What kind of country do we live in?
If we do not address these encroachments on our privacies and liberties now, there may never be an opportunity for us to regain them.
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Do any NTP servers keep track of these seconds?
How effective would something like this be? We don't quite know what is in these databases that we are spoofing.
I'm not going to speculate about this specific incident - there is too little information to form a solid opinion.
Stories like this highlight a problem in the country at large, however. We have reached an age where its not that unlikely that the government, putatively a government of our peers, can monitor us en masse. We have reached an age where low-grade harrassment is a tool of domestic policy. What kind of country do we live in?
If we do not address these encroachments on our privacies and liberties now, there may never be an opportunity for us to regain them.