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Ian Trimble

IT Security specialist with 13+ years of professional experience in enterprise technical support. Highly familiar with storage, networking, and security concepts. Possess numerous technical certifications. Leadership skills include ability to lead and motivate co-workers from all backgrounds, creative problem-solving and solution-oriented work style, decisive and confident decision-making and in-depth proficiency with new technology trends. Reinventing himself every 18 months to keep up with cyber security industry. What keeps him up at night? Data Exfiltration

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Spaghetti Pad Kee Mao

  • August 9, 2020
  • Tagged as: Iron Chef Ian, Recipe, Spaghetti Pad Kee Mao, Thai
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Ingredients 100 g ground beef or other protein of your choice 80 g spaghetti, dry 2–3 cloves garlic 1 spur chili or other medium-to-mild red chilies  2–3 Thai chilies, to taste, (optional) 1 Tbsp chopped…

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Microsoft and Twitter Eyeing TikTok

  • August 9, 2020
  • Tagged as: Bill Gates, microsoft, TikTok, twitter
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In the ever-growing saga of TikTok, Microsoft in a move to appease US and Indian regulators has changed their offer to buy all of TikTok. This is an interesting problem, as Microsoft will have to…

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Learning Linux: Let’s Encrypt

  • August 2, 2020
  • Tagged as: Apache, Certbot, Certificates, crontab, Debian, Let's Encrypt, Lets Encrypt, Linux, SSL, TLS
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I love Let’s Encrypt.  It’s a certification authority that mints certificates.  I have been using them for years on all the sites I host and all the project I test out in home lab environments. …

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Macintosh.js

  • August 2, 2020
  • Tagged as: Macintosh, Macintosh.js, The Oregon Trail
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Are you freaking kidding me? This is incredible!  There are still some bugs, and some of the same quirks that plagued the Mac OS of the past. Here is an example: Does it Work? Yes!…

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Iron Chef Ian: Thai Iced Coffee

  • August 2, 2020
  • Tagged as: Iron Chef Ian, Recipe, Thai Iced Coffee
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INGREDIENTS 4 cups strong coffee 1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk, slightly warm 1 tsp pure almond extract, or Vanilla extract Optional: ground cardamom, ice cubes INSTRUCTIONS In a pitcher, combine the first 3…

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Ian’s OSINT Class

  • July 26, 2020
  • Tagged as: Bellingcat, Joe Gray, OSINT, OSINT Framework, Recon-NG, SnapChat Maps, SOCINT, Sock Puppet, Temp SMS
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This past week I had the privilege to learn about OSINT from Joe Gray. He was teaching the topic of OSINT. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence. In the class we discussed getting started in…

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Iron Chef Ian – Sopapillas Recipe

  • July 26, 2020
  • Tagged as: Recipe, Sopapillas

Ingredients 4 cups all-purpose flour2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon salt4 tablespoons of shortening (oil)1 1/2 cups warm water2 quarts of oil for frying Step 1 In a large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, salt…

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Management vs Leadership -Microsoft, Splunk & Apple: 3 different case studies.

  • May 10, 2020
  • Tagged as: blog, disruption, elastic, microsoft, siem, splunk

Steve Jobs vs Steve Ballmer . 5by5 Podcast – Horace Dediu Strategy is what you say.  Tactics are what you do.  Be careful when the two diverge.  – Clay Christensen In daily life there this duality of what you…

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Ep. 1 – Splunk’s Future

  • May 1, 2020
  • Tagged as: podcast

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This week we’re going to continue to discuss a topic that is still impacting everyone, COVID-19 and a new breach at Nintendo. We will also talk about a friend and positive influence in the InfoSec...

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This podcast started out as a question from DJ. “Hey, do you want to be in a podcast ?”

I answer “Yeah, sure!”.

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