On The Metal / Rick Altherr

Description

On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Rick Altherr, who has experience working all over the stack. Join us as we discuss impossible bugs, fires in the data center, reverse engineering BMC firmware, BMC vulnerabilities, Cray computers, and Windows NT on MIPS. Yup you heard that right!

Subtitle: On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Rick Altherr, who has experience working all over the stack. Join us as we discuss impossible bugs, fires in the data center, reverse engineering BMC firmware, BMC vulnerabilities, Cray computers, and Windows
Duration: 3473
Publishing date: 2020-01-13 03:00
Link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/71644107
Contributors: Oxide Computer Company; author
Enclosures: https://media.transistor.fm/ceda47c6.mp3; audio/mpeg

Shownotes

You can find Rick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kc8apf and read his blog at https://www.kc8apf.net/.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

USBAnywhere: https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-remote-attack/
Rick's talk at OSFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcdHHsfaKQ
OpenBMC: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/
Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Ghidra: https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ https://ghidra-sre.org/ https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
ASPEED: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440
Nuvoton: https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/ibmc/?__locale=en
CRAY 1: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cray/CRAY-1/2240004C_CRAY-1_Hardware_Reference_Nov77.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
Deutsches Museum: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/computers/
Seymour Cray: https://www.cray.com/company/history/seymour-cray https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-Cray
CDC 6600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/104327
Alpha Station: https://web.archive.org/web/20060701073452/http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation
Tru64: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q9yWE/cqlcCYfxmbAJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX
Windows NT: https://web.archive.org/web/20040610122846/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/winntfs.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20020503172231/http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=4494 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
Windows NT on Mips: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)
Palo Alto Goodwill: https://goodwillsv.org/store/palo-alto-store/
SGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation
Cray 1 on ebay: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/cray_1_gate_module_ebay/
root calvin: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln306783/dell-poweredge-what-is-the-default-username-and-password-for-idrac?lang=en https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wem6s/is_there_any_story_or_history_behind_rootcalvin/
Redfish: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish https://redfish.dmtf.org/
iKVM: https://www.ikvm.net/ http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/intro.html
IPMI: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
I2C: https://i2c.info/
Non maskable interrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interrupt
Read and write heads: https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/thin-film-heads-introduced-for-large-disks/ https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005-2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_read-and-write_head
Fly height: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/callafon/publications/2011/UweIEEETonM.pdf
The legend of the walking drives: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=103;t=000500;p=1
Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io/
Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/
ChromeOS Firmware: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware
EDK II: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
Open Compute Project: https://www.opencompute.org/
Width of a Horse's butt: http://www.naute.com/stories/rail.phtml