2024-01-21
Ars Technica
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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
https://arstechnica.com/... Zeb Palmer / @zebpalmer@syringa.social : I've spent a surprisingly significant percentage of my career trying to get thousands of servers scattered around the globe to all ...
2015-10-23
Ars Technica
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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...
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InformationWeek
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?...
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