Why run your own instance when you can just flog the crap out of the public pool for free? [1] Digging into the internals of a few "high end" consumer modem/ro

Why run your own instance when you can just flog the crap out of the public pool for free? [1] Digging into the internals of a few "high end" consumer modem/routers, I wouldn't trust any manufacturer to provide a secure ntpd, so we'd probably just end up with NTP amplification attacks [2] on a Mirai scale. 1: https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/04/07/when-firmware-attacks-ddos-by-d-link/ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/04/07/when-firmware... 2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbps-ntp-amplification-ddos-attack/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gb...