Ian W.

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K4IMW. Nerd. Information Security Engineer, but, just a nerd who blows glass, builds telescopes, and travels a lot.

Ham Radio Village VE/Volunteer. Video Game/Arcade Cabinet/Pinball Table restorer. Former Attorney.

Former: Greenhouse, Luxottica, IBM, Sapient.Publicis, CollabNet.

The views and opinions expressed herein are my own and not necessarily those of my employer, Infosec.exchange, or any other entity.

Homepagehttps://www.ianwilson.org
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Ian W.Mar 8

What's a day like as the COO of a large makerspace?

Misery.

This is on my day off from my real job, so, yeah, it can be a lot.

Ian W.Feb 28
When I think "secure enough for prisons," I *totally* think Anydesk :)
Ian W.Sep 30
You'd think that I'd eventually build out a project, or, let a domain name lapse...
Ian W.Sep 15, 2025

I've been working a fair amount on my homelab PXE system: I'm the type of guy who likes to tinker with different OSES, so now I have a repeatable way of installing them from iPXE.

I also now have a way to quickly wipe my lab with ShredOS; I'll work on getting the rest of the netbootable utilities set up this week.

Next week might be my hardware test image: something that I can run on new hardware to ensure that everything's running as it should before I install a new image on it: perfect for my reddit/craigslist hardware finds!

Ian W.Sep 7, 2025

Bought myself a 98” tv last month to watch football.

Gotta love fall.

Ian W.Jul 28, 2025
When the tongue is out, she’s having a great day.
Ian W.Jul 14, 2025
I'm not sure that I understand this game yet...I should be moving to the next round, but, I'm not.
Ian W.Jun 23, 2025
Something tells me that the second Linda F. testimonial for this product is probably not from a true customer of their products...
Ian W.Jun 7, 2025

First message from my non-profit this morning:

Which came into my watch as:

"Who do we call if the fire"

Suffice to say, it's been a fun morning so far!

Ian W.May 22, 2025
Oilers fans hate this one rule...