Setting Date to January 1, 1970 Can Permanently Brick Your iOS Device (techstuffer.com) 9 points by cat-dev-null 10y ago ↗ HN
[–] xkcd-sucks 10y ago ↗ sounds like a great application for DNS spoofing pool.ntp.org to a local server that always responds with 1 Jan 1970unless ios devices get their time from cell networks or whatever [–] whoopdedo 10y ago ↗ That would be time.apple.com.DHCP can respond with a time server. Would iOS use this to connect to the advertised NTP? [–] banana_giraffe 10y ago ↗ If it did, the NTP client would ignore anything more than 1000s off from the local clock.
[–] whoopdedo 10y ago ↗ That would be time.apple.com.DHCP can respond with a time server. Would iOS use this to connect to the advertised NTP? [–] banana_giraffe 10y ago ↗ If it did, the NTP client would ignore anything more than 1000s off from the local clock.
[–] banana_giraffe 10y ago ↗ If it did, the NTP client would ignore anything more than 1000s off from the local clock.
[–] jjbinx007 10y ago ↗ Tom Scott's just done a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVI87HzfskQ
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 22.4 ms ] threadunless ios devices get their time from cell networks or whatever
DHCP can respond with a time server. Would iOS use this to connect to the advertised NTP?