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Friday, February 23, 2024

[18:53:25] hellokittycat Can someone indicate whether or not it is dangerous to switch to ntp in a non-production environment. I have a script that takes care of it - well, something I found anyway. And, by the way, I also disabled monitoring in the config - as it is vulnerable to some exploits launched by threat actors.

[18:53:37] hellokittycat Here is the code: https://bpa.st/4JVU4

[18:54:28] hellokittycat The funning thing is since I enabled that daemon, I've had trouble reverting back to the default time syncronization in Ubuntu ... but that indicates success so I'm thinking I'll just leave it. It's mainly - from my understanding - used for kerberos, among other things

[18:54:33] hellokittycat I'm just using it on a home desktop

[18:54:40] hellokittycat *funny

[19:04:03] hellokittycat Great - thanks for saying that, man!

[19:04:20] hellokittycat So, the reason I picked it is that I created these clocks using a while loop in Python in bash.

[19:04:43] hellokittycat And those are very cool. You can just use echo $(date +%r) ... if the while loop stops each second, you effectively have a clock.

[19:04:50] hellokittycat I noticed the clocks were about one second off

[19:04:57] hellokittycat That's when I decided to switch to ntp

[19:05:11] hellokittycat *and Bash

[19:18:54] hellokittycat End3r, are you a programmer or admin? Also, what is your nick an allusion to?

[19:42:09] hellokittycat I did see something interesting. I was asking ChatGPT how to unmask a daemon... Just because I was lazy. It interpreted that as a blackhat intention and refused to answer, haha.

[19:42:50] hellokittycat Yet the daemons themselves have nothing to do with hackjobs or exploits. You could write a rootkit that will masquerade as a daemon but the daemons themselves are necessary processes. I think it's hillarious that it interpreted it that way.

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