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Amir Michael

On The Metal

CHAPTER

Open Source Infrastructure and the Bus Bar Incident

This chapter explores the accessibility of infrastructure through open source software and firmware, and recounts an incident involving a power engineer accidentally touching the potentially lethal bus bar. It also discusses the removal of the BMC from a server and highlights the implementation and security considerations of Wake on LAN functionality.

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