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		ifoundthetao on Sept 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ntpd won't save you from one particular rogue bit Hm, I wasn't able to replicate it. I'm using a Kali Linux VM. I'll try some other OSes and see if it works on there. Was anyone else successful with the PoC code?

gerdesj on Sept 28, 2017 | [–]

It works flawlessly on a physical system. There was rather a lot of red text in journalctl -r 8)

sp332 on Sept 28, 2017 | [–]

Is your VM host resetting the time in the guest?

ifoundthetao on Sept 28, 2017 | [–]

That's possible. I'll try it on a physical system in a bit. See what I can do.

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