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🔄⏰ Oh, the horror! Keeping clocks in sync is the stuff of engineers' nightmares—who knew "what time is it?" could spark a crisis of global proportions? 🌍💥 Forget world peace, let's figure out how to make clocks in different time zones agree with each other—it's like trying to herd cats! 😹📅
https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/clock-sync-nightmare/ #clocksync #engineering #globalcrisis #timezones #nightmares #HackerNews #ngated
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare

Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why…

Arpit Bhayani
Sam BentMay 22, 2025
Keep the system clock synchronized with network time to prevent time-based correlation attacks.
#NTP #ClockSync #OpSec
Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 8, 2023

@tails For example, I do want to preconfigure some basics like @torproject #Bridges and settings like "use Port 890 & 443 only" which #TorBrowser allows me to do, but #Tails doesn't.

Or at least they don't allow me to just change a config file on the #PersistentStorage to do so.

Worse: I can't even do a single #ClockSync via #NTP without having a #Tor connection up and running, which is really bricking stuff.