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You trust them to give you a correct time. That's at least a bit more trust than you give any other random IP address.

• dspillett 11y ago
  That doesn't imply I trust them in any other way though. And even if I do (I might trust them more than a more random selection of individuals, taking them doing something for the community as a point in favour of their character) that wouldn't stretch to trusting they were not unknowingly compromised by a third party.
  • adekok 11y ago
    When you visit a web site, you trust that it will give you the data you ask, and hopefully not a lot more. You hope that it doesn't give you viruses. Sites that do are not trusted. Sites that don't are... not untrusted. :( You also hope that visiting a web site doesn't lead to the web site running a scan on your IP address. Or doing any number of other nefarious things. This kind of trust is at least most peoples assumptions. If it weren't, there would be no outrage or even surprise at the nefarious behaviors which abuse our trust.
• Johnny555 11y ago
  Technically, you're trusting that collectively they are giving you the correct time, so you're not putting full trust in every single server. A rogue server with incorrect time will be ignored.
  • adekok 11y ago
    Does it violate your trust to scan anyone who does NTP queries? a) I never trusted them, so this is fine and to be expected b) I sort of trusted them, so this is surprising and not polite. I lean towards (b).