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		kbob on Oct 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First Flight of Kestrel, the FPGA OpenPOWER-Based ... A BMC with a soft CPU will create a whole new class of security vulnerabilities. Now you can hide malware within the BMC's gateware as well as its firmware.

sennight on Oct 29, 2021 [–]

lol, read only jumper on the fpga object code eprom... boy that was a close one - we just narrowly avoided the horror of user controlled hardware.

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