On 2013-10-10, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Илья Шипицин <chipits...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I use ntp already. > > So everyone can predict what your machine would have sent in response > to an ICMP timestamp query, meaning that turning it off doesn't hide > anything. > > >> I am about to switch icmp timestamps off (security people are afraid >> of that setting), > > Cargo cult security. > > >> just curious what was the purpose of it. > > Oddly enough, the RFC that defines it (RFC792) has a reference about that. > > Philip Guenther > >
I suppose next you'll be wanting to know how to force insecure ciphers for HTTPS ;)
