Setting Date to January 1, 1970 Can Permanently Brick Your iOS Device

[cat-dev-null]

https://techstuffer.com/setting-date-january-1-1970-permanent-brick-ios-bug/

[jjbinx007]

Tom Scott's just done a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVI87HzfskQ

[xkcd-sucks]

sounds like a great application for DNS spoofing pool.ntp.org to a local server that always responds with 1 Jan 1970

unless ios devices get their time from cell networks or whatever

[whoopdedo → xkcd-sucks]

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 → whoopdedo]

If it did, the NTP client would ignore anything more than 1000s off from the local clock.