Was DNS Spoofing such a big threat that they chose to synchronize with their own servers instead of just using NTP pools? Presumably it's some kind of proprietary, SSL connection. Ugh. Still, at least it's something they could* patch out.
I was going to say why you couldn’t just set a local server to whatever address it looks for but knowing Sony they probably used some proprietary protocol.
If it did there would be no point to the rest of the functionality, as you could subvert any additional functionality based on time by simply sending back a false NTP response. To be fair to Sony they've implemented this effectively, and all the alternatives suggested so far make the time on the console trivially easy to alter.
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I was going to say why you couldn’t just set a local server to whatever address it looks for but knowing Sony they probably used some proprietary protocol.
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All the checking of purchases are done on the console, based on the internal clock, that is why it needs to have an accurate local clock.
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but at the very least let it do basic ntp just to get back after dead battery and then it can pull an full sync with demo auth.
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It is DRM to implement limited time trials on software and enforce timed rentals.