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Have you considered putting up a server which sends back fake answers to netgear clients, to cause people to upgrade?

April 26, 2017cause clients NetGear people putting server

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Have you considered putting up a server which sends back fake answers to netgear clients, to cause people to upgrade?

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Yes, but we didn’t consider it for long. Both Netgear and others on the review team agreed that it would likely have very little effect, since only a small subset of the customers seem to even be aware of the NTP-related features of the affected products. Besides, the proposed “dishonest” time server (which would report the wrong time) would have to be operated at the IP address that is currently that of our well-known reliable time server. It would be quite rude for it to suddenly become unreliable since the whole purpose of the public time service is to answer with the correct time. The University intends to provide the best possible service, regardless of how it’s abused.