[time-nuts] Time security musing - attacking the clock itself

gary lists at lazygranch.com
Tue Dec 4 06:50:10 UTC 2012


All my blackberries synced to the network. I presume all phones do this. 
I still have an Android HTC G2 that has a NTP app, not that it ever worked!


On 12/3/2012 10:27 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
>
> lists at lazygranch.com said:
>> Now a phone has accurate network time, so they could get really tricky  with
>> the time as part of the code.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> I don't have a smart phone, but I've heard various war stories of crappy time
> keeping.
>
> I assume the time was coming from an ap rather than the local cell tower.
>
>



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