God that article was a horrible read. So for anyone who wants to skip it...
tl;dr: Hackers are using SSL certs from 2012 and changing the unprotected system clock in order to bypass security measures.
Thank you for taking one for the team.
Thank you.
TLDR: encrypt and authenticate your fucking NTP traffic
Upvoted for 2 reasons.
I didn't have to read the article
You were at 68 upvotes before I upvoted. Nice!
I used the same trick to get around time limits on shareware games back in the day
:)
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