NetworkManager time sync

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On 5 July 2010 21:44, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Maybe someone's got a copy of build 653 lying around and they can run
>> rpm -q for us.
>
> While we have your attention on this topic...
> Do you not think that this is a security issue? In that a thief could
> put a laptop on a network with rigged DNS and have control over the
> time/date on the laptop?

A sane security system would let the user control their local time,
without jeopardizing security based on server (or "firmware") time.
  --scott

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