Yeah, the language is a bit excessive, but this is downright terrifying. Given the absurd security protections implemented in IPMI I can't imagine the successor

Yeah, the language is a bit excessive, but this is downright terrifying. Given the absurd security protections implemented in IPMI I can't imagine the successor being trustworthy enough to satisfy serious security requirements. Anyone remember the infamous cypher zero bug/feature in IPMI where you could specify an undocumented connection encryption mode which made authentication optional?