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BMC, hack, idrac, ipmi, qemu, security, system, virtual

BMCs under Qemu repo

August 24, 2026

And a new repo with various BMCs that I’ve tried to wrassle into submission (e.g. usability) under Qemu: https://github.com/zenfish/zbmc. Currently – advantech-asmb787 Advantech ASMB-787 BMC (AMI MegaRAC SP-X 4.0 /...

audit, code, crypto, hack, idrac, ipmi, python, security

new tool release: zipmi

August 17, 2026

zipmi – https://github.com/zenfish/zipmi – is a pure-Python IPMI/BMC stack — an `ipmitool`-style CLI plus a library where every byte is an inspectable and mangleable object. Built for people/AI (are AIs...

BMC, claude, dell, hack, idrac, ipmi

unpacking iDRAC9/iDRAC10 (dracula 🦇)

June 28, 2026

Awhile back I unpacked some older idrac firmware for fun… had to jump through some hoops to do so, so when I had to unpack idrac9/idrac10 firwmare, decided to improve...

code, DARPA, dtrace, forensics, mac, security

Software tracing on the mac

March 11, 2026

There are two types of people in the world… those who love strace (and ltrace!) and the other 99.999% of people who have never heard of strace. This is for...

BMC, hack, ipmi

unpacking Dell’s iDRAC schtuff

September 9, 2025

I hadn’t look at Dell’s iDRAC stuff in forever… and it appeared they’d changed some of the formatting of the iDRAC updates/etc. since then. I didn’t see anything out there,...

dinosaur, me, security, sexism

A Legend in Someone Else’s Mind

May 7, 2025

So this is a self-indulgent whimsical interlude that’s overly long. Pull up a chair if you want, else, I hope all is well in your world. All that said –...