Meta has added Network Time Security to its public time service, allowing devices to verify that time data really came from Meta and was not altered in transit.
Meta has added Network Time Security to its public time service, allowing devices to verify that time data really came from Meta and was not altered in transit.
The system addresses a key weakness of traditional NTP while remaining stateless on the server side, and Meta has open-sourced the implementation in its Time library. The company is also urging Android and iOS platform maintainers to adopt NTS more broadly.