Re: Tracking Clock Skew; Computer Forensics

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:03:33PM -0800, Todd Walton wrote:
> For those building freedom, there's a lot to overcome.  According to
> this ZDNet story on Slashdot, somebody's developed a way of
> fingerprinting individual computers by their clock skew.  It's an
> amazing piece of computer forensics, and it could do a lot of good.
> 
> Of course, it's another hurdle for cypherpunks to overcome, but I
> don't think it's what the article cracks it up to be.  It's merely a
> way of identifying individual physical machines, and an unreliable one
> at that.  Either you skew your clock skew when necessary, or you
> connect from a public, shared computer.  Using something like Freenet,
> it's not even an issue, of course.

Or you do:
# apt-get install ntpdate
# apt-get install ntp-simple

;)

Which you should do anyway!
> 
> It's just another trap for the unwary.
> 
> Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net
> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/04/1355253
> 
> -todd
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