Welcome aboard. Michel / K7HIL
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Erich Heine <sophac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I just wanted to introduce myself to the list. My name is Erich Heine, I'm > a researcher at the University of Illinois. I am a programmer attached to a > couple of projects, but the one relevant here is called TCIP (Trustworthy > Cyber-Infrastructure for the Power Grid - url: tcipg.org). > > Our group does computer security research relevant the the US power grid > infrastructure (and when relevant to all power delivery :) ). Recently > we've had researchers looking at GPS spoofing, and are beginning to examine > secure time synchronization more broadly. It's fascinating to discover just > how much havoc can be caused by assuming the time signal is good enough > when it may not be. (This seems to be the way of computer security - assume > something is good or good enough, then someone comes along an breaks > everything because the assumption was bad. Then everyone scrambles to get > better solutions, and other areas become assumed "good enough". Repeat > ad-nauseam). > > I was pointed here by Magnus a month or two ago, after a fascinating > discussion of just how deep this time and timing rabbit-hole goes. I'm > quite impressed with this community - both in terms of deep knowledge and > overall friendliness. It's been a pleasure just lurking and soaking up some > knowledge since then. > > Anyway, I just wanted to say "Hi all" before I start posting questions, > comments, etc. :) > > Regards, > Erich > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.