On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 01:16:57PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > I'm not an expert on NTP, but what sort of information do you think it > could leak that could compromise your system security? There are ways > for hackers to abuse NTP protocol, but that is where you should be using > NTS extensions.
No, this is not about NTP, but leaking the information that an RTC-less device booted and did the magic handshake to get time correct (by sending standard queries to cloudflare). I actually do run a local ntpd inside the protected network, which is why I'm happy with hard coded or dhcp provided (local) IPs. Martin
