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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Todd Vierling wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, David Hubbard wrote: > > > How about serve back bogus NTP data to non-BIX customer > > prefixes? Maybe if people's computers start setting > > themselves to the year 2004 D-Link will do something. :-) > > Perhaps return back a time value that is ~10 seconds from wrapping around? > Where "wrapping" depends on the size of a time value in the device's OS. > > (Note that if the devices crash because of bad input, I can hardly see that > as legally actionable, since the devices never had the permission to use the > data source in the first place. ;) Don't count on that. If you set a bear trap inside your front door, and a burglar injures himself because of it, you can be held liable, at least in most US states. Dunno about .dk. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [email protected] http://3.am =========================================================================
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