The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive? - eviltoast

Ian Cutress muses upon rumors around SiFive, the forerunner of high-performance RISC-V cores.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    iDRAC is specifically designed for remote management of serves. Calling it a back door is silly when it’s more of a front door. It’s how Dell intends for you to manage the server.

    • t0m5k1@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      That’s the same train of thought I had when telnet was declared a back door in huawei devices.

      https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/30/huawei_enterprise_router_backdoor_is_telnet/

      During the hey day I passed hcna-rs, the first thing we were taught was to just use telnet as a means to enable shh, then log back in and disable telnet.

      Moral of the story, do not under estimate a nation state’s use of global tech media to effect a global drop of a product or manufacturer from the market.

    • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      LUL. So you’re right but one of the horror stories I tell around campfires is how many folks don’t know about that front door.

      So how about we agree to “surprise feature” for iDRAC? And, yes yes, I can feel the “they shouldn’t be admins” coming.