[OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th

[John Abreau]

Brian wrote:
>  Plausible, yes.  But with ntp, GPS clock-syncing, etc, this is getting a
> little bit tinfoilhat-ish.

I suppose it would make more sense to say nothing, not worry about it, 
and just assume that whoever implements it will get all the details  right.

"Tinfoilhat-ish" is an odd way to describe the question, though. That 
term suggests a clock that's been deliberately pushed back, not the 
routine clock drift that occurs normally and makes clock-syncing tools 
necessary in the first place.

I've had clock syncing problems in a bunch of desktops I support, and 
every one of them had been configured to use the Windows network time 
sync. In the end I discovered that they were syncing against several 
different time servers, and most of them were doing it weekly. I can 
only assume this was the default that Microsoft defined for the initial 
install.

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