[Beowulf] Hacked MBs It was only a matter of time

[John Hearns]

I must have installed thousands of Supermicro servers....
My current status - hiding behind the sofa with the light off waiting
for MI${N} to ring the doorbell.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 16:18, Jeff Johnson
<jeff.johnson at aeoncomputing.com> wrote:
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> I respectfully disagree. The BMCs in modern server designs are plumbed to every onboard network interface on the motherboard. So it’s not just a matter of the “dedicated management port”. The chip would have access to every onboard LAN. If any network was routable to the outside it would be potentially be able to engage in its designed activities.
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> While many HPC environments are walled gardens this chip scandal would impact “HPC in the cloud” activities.
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> Just my $.02 worth
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> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 07:44 Ellis H. Wilson III <ellis at ellisv3.com> wrote:
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>> On 10/04/2018 09:47 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
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>> My take-away:
>> This will only impact systems where there is a route between the wider
>> world and the IPMI ports on your servers.
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