Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17
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Facebook details its new time keeping service and says it's improved the accuracy from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds on its Network Time Protocol servers
The social network says it's improved the accuracy of time telling from 10 milliseconds to 100 microseconds. — Who keeps time on the internet?
New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos
Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages. — Serious weaknesses in the Internet's time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outage...
Widely-used open source Network Time Protocol depends primarily on one overworked project lead
NTP's Fate Hinges On ‘Father Time’ — The Network Time Protocol provides a foundation to modern computing. So why does NTP's support hinge so much on the shaky finances of one 59-year-old developer?...