Mike Owens
@qu13t0ne.bsky.social
Infosec at @TrustedSec.com. Remediation. Cloud and systems hardening. Risk management. Always learning.
https://michaelowens.me
https://michaelowens.me
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Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.
28 Days of Black History
28 days of Black history delivered in your inbox each day of February.
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February 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.
Unsurprisingly, Bruce pulled no punches. ✊ #iceout
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Unsurprisingly, Bruce pulled no punches. ✊ #iceout
Abolish ICE. Prosecute. No excuses.
January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Abolish ICE. Prosecute. No excuses.
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"They have roughed up local lawmakers, detained and jailed legal observers without charges, tear-gassed high school students, smashed in car windows of bewildered drivers unlucky enough to cross their path."
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 PM
"They have roughed up local lawmakers, detained and jailed legal observers without charges, tear-gassed high school students, smashed in car windows of bewildered drivers unlucky enough to cross their path."
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Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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July 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
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If you need 90 minutes of beauty, the English National Ballet's Nutcracker is now available via PBS's Great Performance. The staging is just lovely. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
Nutcracker from English National Ballet ~ About | Great Performances | PBS
Experience the holiday classic in a new light, featuring over 100 dancers and musicians performing at the London Coliseum.
www.pbs.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
If you need 90 minutes of beauty, the English National Ballet's Nutcracker is now available via PBS's Great Performance. The staging is just lovely. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
Come join my team!
New year, new job? We're hiring! TrustedSec is looking to hire a Security Consultant for the Hardening and Remediation team, providing hands-on Security Engineering support focused on cloud security, hardening, and remediation. Apply below! #infosecjobs recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Come join my team!
New blog in which my team and I go down the rabbit hole of Entra privileged roles and try to make sense of things... Check it out and let us know what you think!
Confused by Entra ID’s admin roles? You’re not alone. In our blog, our Remediation Team cuts through the noise with a three-tier model that highlights which roles matter most and how to secure each one—resulting in a consistent and smarter identity strategy. Read now! trustedsec.com/blog/managin...
Managing Privileged Roles in Microsoft Entra ID: A Pragmatic Approach
trustedsec.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New blog in which my team and I go down the rabbit hole of Entra privileged roles and try to make sense of things... Check it out and let us know what you think!
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
Voted! #DemocracyInAction
a colorful button that says i voted have you
Alt: a colorful button that says i voted have you
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November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Voted! #DemocracyInAction
Oh come on!
And yet I've been in this field long enough that I'm not even surprised.
And yet I've been in this field long enough that I'm not even surprised.
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Oh come on!
And yet I've been in this field long enough that I'm not even surprised.
And yet I've been in this field long enough that I'm not even surprised.
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"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.
arstechnica.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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Headed to the Queen City Conference? Don’t miss @qu13t0ne.bsky.social presenting “I Will Survive: Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware” on Friday, November 7 at 1:00 PM. See you there, Cincinnati! queencitycon.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Headed to the Queen City Conference? Don’t miss @qu13t0ne.bsky.social presenting “I Will Survive: Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware” on Friday, November 7 at 1:00 PM. See you there, Cincinnati! queencitycon.org
Which public cloud infrastructure provider will go down today and why does nobody care if it's GCP?
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Which public cloud infrastructure provider will go down today and why does nobody care if it's GCP?
Excited to share that I'm presenting at Queen City Conference in Cincinnati, Nov. 7-9. Join me Friday afternoon for "I Will Survive: Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware". See you there! queencitycon.org
#cybersecurity #conference #backups #ransomware
#cybersecurity #conference #backups #ransomware
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Excited to share that I'm presenting at Queen City Conference in Cincinnati, Nov. 7-9. Join me Friday afternoon for "I Will Survive: Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware". See you there! queencitycon.org
#cybersecurity #conference #backups #ransomware
#cybersecurity #conference #backups #ransomware
"It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation." Another incisive take from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation." Another incisive take from @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
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Pls, usem Linux
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Pls, usem Linux
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Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost.
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost.
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Check out my latest work -- a framework for ensuring you can recover from backups when disaster strikes!
You’ve made backups, now it’s time to make them resilient. In our new blog, Mike Owens presents the Defensive Backup Infrastructure Controls framework, a system he developed to protect backups, harden systems, and ensure recovery during data loss or attacks. Read now! trustedsec.com/blog/protect...
Protecting Backup and Recovery in the Age of Ransomware
trustedsec.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Check out my latest work -- a framework for ensuring you can recover from backups when disaster strikes!
"'Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,' [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey said at a news conference outside the school. 'These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.'"
apnews.com/live/minneap...
apnews.com/live/minneap...
Live updates: Shooter at a Minneapolis Catholic school kills 2 children, injures 17 people
A gunman identified as Robin Westman has killed two children and injured 17 other people at a Minnesota Catholic school on Wednesday before killing himself, officials said.
apnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"'Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,' [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey said at a news conference outside the school. 'These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.'"
apnews.com/live/minneap...
apnews.com/live/minneap...
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We haven't learned a darn thing.
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
We haven't learned a darn thing.
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They're in Georgetown, which if you know Washington, tells you how stupid this invasion of DC is.
This is so dumb. The FBI has actual skills to contribute to fighting crime—and walking a beat in Georgetown as a large group in tactical gear isn’t it. This is public safety LARPing.
FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
“There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”
August 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
They're in Georgetown, which if you know Washington, tells you how stupid this invasion of DC is.
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Former CISA Director Jen Easterly responds to the DOD retracting her teaching position at West Point due to Loomer's conspiracy theories
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The Harder Right
I spent 25 years in uniform, including four as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point and two and a half more teaching economics and national security at West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, USMA (a.k.
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July 31, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Former CISA Director Jen Easterly responds to the DOD retracting her teaching position at West Point due to Loomer's conspiracy theories
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Today is the 157th anniversary of the official adoption of the #14thAmendment to the U.S. #Constitution. Seems like an appropriate time to post the text of article 1 in particular, just in case anyone has forgotten what it says:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ...
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ...
(1/3)
July 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Today is the 157th anniversary of the official adoption of the #14thAmendment to the U.S. #Constitution. Seems like an appropriate time to post the text of article 1 in particular, just in case anyone has forgotten what it says:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ...
(1/3)
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ...
(1/3)