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They run a port scan against your ip and publish the discovered info publicly. You may find that okay, others don't.



Well then I guess people should stop relying on their IP address being one of many in a vast space for security and implement proper authentication instead.

It's not like your service has to expose all its secrets to an unauthenticated client sending you a GET / HTTP/1.1.


That's not the irk. Rude behavior isn't suddenly polite just because I have great security. The spirit of donating server time to the ntp.org pool is not to use the data for your own self promotion.




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