On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Chris Albertson
<[email protected]>wrote:

> It's not a big deal.  Even if one pool NTP server is down
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > The article talks about how the victim site can easily filter out the
> > messages from the NTP server, but does not seem to discuss the "societal"
> > impact of potentially screwing up a public service (the NTP server)
>

It's an amplification attack.  It's about taking down citi.com or
whitehouse.gov -- not taking down pool.ntp.org (or any part of it).
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