A Legend in Someone Else’s Mind
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 –...
Remotely Access Live Supermicro Firmware+
TLDR; a vendor supported/supplied utility allows download of live BMC1 firmware/configuration on (at least) some SuperMicro BMCs. It’s hard to tell who might be affected, but the utility used was...
Kittens, Pr0n, and Bad Juju in the Blockchain
Modern digital currency mostly seem to revolve around a construct called a blockchain, which – by design – is a (mostly![1]) append-only distributed database that is intended to keeps all...
how many factors, anyway?
I’ve been using Google’s 2 factor authentication for awhile now, it’s simple to use and seems effective (and is probalby the most commonly used 2F on earth.) But how many...
Security is….
I once had lunch with Paul Karger at IBM Watson labs while visiting my pal Wietse many years ago. I’d known he’d been around a long time… so I asked...