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Head Against Wall: Odd Bootable USB Behavior

Head Against Wall: Odd Bootable USB Behavior

So for work, we provision devices to send to clients using a bootable USB Ubuntu installer with a bunch of custom options and additional software. This all happens without hiccups generally...until this week, when I needed to clone the drive for someone else. After much weeping and gnashing of

SSH Access With Cloudflare Argo and Access

SSH Access With Cloudflare Argo and Access

Although Cloudflare generally has pretty good documentation. In this specific case, the documentation is spread over multiple pages and actually just wrong in a couple spots. I am going to try to consolidate this process here. My goal here was to enable programmatic SSH access to an arbitrary number of

InsightVM (Nexpose) Slack Bot

InsightVM (Nexpose) Slack Bot

Link to the repo at the bottom... Precursor to this post: https://ratil.life/slackbots-for-fun-and-profit/ [https://ratil.life/slackbots-for-fun-and-profit/] A few months back I decided to find a way to lighten the load of ad hoc vulnerability scanning requests by our system owners. One of our biggest time sucks was

Texas Ski Ranch

Texas Ski Ranch

To say I love my job would be an understatement. The company gives each team a quarterly budget to do a team outing. This quarter our team went to the Texas Ski Ranch for wakeboarding and paintballing. I had driven by the Ranch multiple times on my way to the