On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:26 PM, <j...@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
> When I see questions like this my first response is "Why all the bother?". > > There is nothing secret or proprietary about the time of day. Security is so that you know you are not being spoofed. Or if you are providing the time so that you can prove to your users that you are who you claim to be and are not spoofing them. There is the chance that someone might "impersonate" one of your servers or a server you use. and then make a computer's clock be set to the wrong time. Again "who cares" if you only use your computer to serf the web and read emails but what if you were a bank processing ATM or visa card transactions or worse a computer routing trans or airplanes or controlling stop lights. If I were smart enough to remotely control a computer's time, then I could maybe make stock trades with an effective trade date of four hours ago. I could make a fortune. -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
