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> If someone is harvesting IPs from NTP queries sent to Debian infrastructure for intelligence gathering, that in itself is a big deal.

Debian doesn't run the NTP pool.

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Debian does use [0-3].debian.pool.ntp.org as the default NTP servers, however. Debian (and Ubuntu) also start up the NTP daemon as soon as the client is installed -- even before one has a chance to change those default servers.

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