A quick one for you. I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform, a company known as SiFive and formed from the original architects of the RISC-V instruction set, has gone through some major changes.

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

    • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumbleEnglish
      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.

      • t0m5k1English
        0•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
        -2•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.

        • ggppjjEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          It has to be enabled, right? So if someone enabling iDRAC doesn’t know that it exists…