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boring_twenties on Oct 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fixing Getrandom()

Broadcast packets are received in non-promiscuous mode, obviously. Otherwise none of this would work without it.

icedchai on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

Yes, you are correct.. I was more commenting that the "stray" network packets could still be used for timing.

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