Well then I guess people should stop relying on their IP address being one of many in a vast space for security and implement proper authentication instead.
It's not like your service has to expose all its secrets to an unauthenticated client sending you a GET / HTTP/1.1.
That's not the irk. Rude behavior isn't suddenly polite just because I have great security. The spirit of donating server time to the ntp.org pool is not to use the data for your own self promotion.
It's not like your service has to expose all its secrets to an unauthenticated client sending you a GET / HTTP/1.1.