> Not necessarily, as Brad points out below. Abusing mail services might > be more beneficial to spammers, but abusing time services might be more > beneficial to crackers. >
Anyone who is (a) a big enough target to attract crackers skilled enough to analyze their network and find weak points like time servers and (b) dependent on accurate time for security purposes should be advised that pool.ntp.org is not guaranteed to be acurrate. It'd take approximately no effort for said crackers to add their servers to the pool, and configure them to give accurate time to everyone (that includes the monitoring servers) but you. [And, I'm pretty damn sure spammers are a much, much bigger problem.] _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
