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Colin Bitterfield

Colin Bitterfield

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Sep 24, 2025

The Great American Betrayal: How H1-B and F1 Visas Enabled $600 Billion Wealth Transfer While…

The Great American Betrayal: How H1-B and F1 Visas Enabled $600 Billion Wealth Transfer While Handing Critical Infrastructure to Foreign…

The Great American Betrayal: How H1-B and F1 Visas Enabled $600 Billion Wealth Transfer While…

Colin Bitterfield

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Jul 22, 2025

Installing Azure CLI on macOS 15 Without Homebrew: Microsoft Did It Again

A tale of incomplete scripts, virtualenv nightmares, and why MacPorts saves the day

Installing Azure CLI on macOS 15 Without Homebrew: Microsoft Did It Again

Colin Bitterfield

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Jan 8, 2024

I’ll Never Use Geometry After High School — I was wrong

I am working on adding “Starlink” to my RV and needed to make a bushing for the pole mount to connect it to a chainlink fence pole. $20 v…

I’ll Never Use Geometry After High School — I was wrong

Colin Bitterfield

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May 18, 2023

AI Code Generation is not ready for prime time

Over the last year, I have been asked about the security concerns with AI-Generated source code and “code assistants” like Tab9, CodePilot…

AI Generated Image

Colin Bitterfield

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Mar 27, 2023

Secure Delete in OSX (Ventura)

Recently, I was asked how to securely delete the free space of a file on OSX. Back in the OSX El Captain days finder had an option “Secure…

Secure Delete in OSX (Ventura)

Colin Bitterfield

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Mar 20, 2023

Setup your MacBook Pro Ready for Developing in Ventura (OSX 13)

When you change laptops, upgrade OSX, or set up a new employer laptop, there is a litany of installation and configurations just to get…

Setup your MacBook Pro Ready for Developing in Ventura (OSX 13)

Colin Bitterfield

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Sep 30, 2022

I am going to try to follow in your footsteps and see how it goes

Colin Bitterfield

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Dec 9, 2020

Create a python module shell in under 5 minutes

I routine create python modules for security work and personal fun projects. Getting a directory structure prepared and prepped takes way…

Create a python module shell in under 5 minutes

Colin Bitterfield

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Nov 30, 2020

Setting up your MAC OSX 11 to use the AWS CLI and other python tools for accessing Amazon Web…

Every time that I change work laptops or upgrade my laptop to a new version of MAC OSX, I need to remove and reconfigure parts of MAC…

Setting up your MAC OSX 11 to use the AWS CLI and other python tools for accessing Amazon Web…

Colin Bitterfield

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Dec 26, 2019

Installing SuiteCRM in the Cloud

I am working with several small businesses with business development and automation issues. We evaluated SalesForce.com and some other CRM…

Installing SuiteCRM in the Cloud

Colin Bitterfield

Colin Bitterfield

NIST certified Security Professional | 10+ years experience in infrastructure security and compliance | Experienced in creating security programs.

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