Two things that need more exposure: The heir apparent to NTP (the old codebase was a mess with many barriers to contributors, leading to many of the security issues allowing DDoS attacks)

https://www.ntpsec.org/

NTPsec is a secure, hardened, and improved implementation of Network Time Protocol derived from NTP Classic, Dave Mills’s original.
NTPsec, as its name implies, is a more secure NTP. Our goal is to deliver code that can be used with confidence in deployments with the most stringent security, availability, and assurance requirements.



Which is partly supported by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: (icei.org)

Which leads to their "New Guard" program for mentoring younger programmers on infrastructure software: (icei.org/newguard/)

Something funny happened a few years ago. Google came out with a feature by which a user can have his or her account turned over to a third party after a certain period of inactivity, to essentially will it to someone . A few infrastructure devs set their accounts to go to me.
"Why?" I asked. "Why me instead of your co-developer, children, or spouse?"
"You", they answered, "Are the only one of us under 30".

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