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

BMCs under Qemu repo

August 24, 2026

(Took a hatchet to the last post, lol. Here’s the update!) For awhile I’d had a little petting zoo of qemu’d BMCs, so I decided to write it all up...

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...

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,...

cats, hack, security, virtual

stupid docker tricks #239192

February 2, 2016

1) Limit max processes on container; unfortunately docker seems intent on me not doing docker stupid tricks, so this is actually a bit of a pain on some systems… but if...

code, crypto, hack, philosophy, security

d3ck, d3ck, goose

May 13, 2015

A bit over 2 years ago I started on a journey that has become a bit surreal; I had what seemed like a modest goal, simply create something that would...