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Medibank Australia – Confidential Details of 9.7 Million Citizens Made Public
ByBrainTrust February 2, 2024February 2, 2024
The following details were published on the Cyber Security Hub in relation to the Medibank Australia system “data breach” in 2022. I have reprinted the details here to emphasise the gravity of the event. It is important that you read this, as it highlight the behaviour of the criminal, the company, law enforcement and government….
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Fact Check – A Classic Magician’s Trick
ByBrainTrust February 2, 2024January 11, 2025
A friend asked me, whether I believed something was a “fact” today and my response amazed and astounded him. I revealed a classic magicians trick to him. Unfortunately, the trick (illusion) that I showed my friend is being used constantly and everybody is falling for it. Let me explain the trick. Let us fill a…
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Cyber Warfare – 2024
ByBrainTrust January 31, 2024February 1, 2024
What If? In this article, I will explain a simple method to bring an entire country to it knees in a matter of minutes. It is written as a “what if” scenario that should help you to understand why your purchasing choices need to be very seriously reevaluated in 2024. The sad truth is that…
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Independent Media – Allows You To Tell Your Own Story – Your Truth
ByBrainTrust January 30, 2024February 10, 2024
There Is No Truth – It’s Just A Story Everybody has their own story to tell. This is what makes humans so interesting. Before we had the Internet, these stories were shared by publishing books, scientific papers, writing articles for the gossip magazines, or just sharing it verbally over dinner. Without exception, all stories ever…
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New Electric Vehicles – Think Carefully
ByBrainTrust January 24, 2024January 26, 2024
Whether you choose to buy a new electric vehicle (EV) or a traditional petrol/diesel/gas (ICE) one is currently in your hands. Some governments are proposing to take this choice away from you and making EV purchasing your only option. The question remains on what is proposed to be done with the existing 1.475 billion petrol,…
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Domestic Solar Power – Expensive Mistake
ByGuest Author January 22, 2024January 22, 2024
Industry Professional Speaks Out I was asked to write an article to explain why I felt that the current deployment of Ad-Hoc solar installations in domestic premises is a very bad idea. This is from my perspective as a professional engineer who has worked in the power distribution industry in Australia for over 20 years…
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Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation
ByBrainTrust January 16, 2024January 16, 2024
2024 – The Year That Dissenting Voices Were Extinguished In order to get a perspective on these new terms, it is important to realise that in the USA, these forms of conveying information, have ALL been deemed “terrorist” acts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Australia, too, is about to introduce laws that head…
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State Of Control – Documentary Reveals Agenda
ByBrainTrust January 12, 2024January 12, 2024
In researching the origins of the push by our banks to introduce centralised digital currencies, I found this very disturbing documentary. It is very well presented and gives a history of the motivation for the introduction of these systems. The authors have researched the information very well and I would suggest that you view this…
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Everybody Needs a VPN – It’s Easy With A Smartphone or Linux
ByBrainTrust January 3, 2024January 3, 2024
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have been around since the evolution of the Internet. Historically, they were used to allow secure and private connections between employees and their place of employment, or to provide site-to-site connections between geographically separate company offices. Setting them up, required specialist networking skills, so they were usually set up by expert…
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Online Security – Password Mis-management
ByBrainTrust December 30, 2023December 31, 2023
Today I wish to shed some light on the everyday requirement to “remember” passwords. Again, this is aimed at the general layman that is “forced” into having to remember passwords for every system that they need to get access to. In this article you will learn that that password mismanagement has led to wide scale…
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Technology In Schools – A Teacher’s Perspective
ByGuest Author December 27, 2023December 28, 2023
After more than 20 years as a primary school teacher in Australia, I have been reflecting on the effects of technology on student behaviour and teacher workload, since the mainstream use of technology (mainly iPads) in and out of the classroom. These are the main changes I have observed: A decline in appropriate social behaviours…
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Mobile Phones – Spying Made Easy
ByBrainTrust December 18, 2023December 21, 2023
Most people may be aware that there is a tendency for the marketing information that pops up on your phone, seems to be related to conversations you had, or things you looked up in your browser. On smartphones, this happens by design. So while your smartphone is able to make phone calls to anybody at…
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The Price of Convenience – Cybercrime Up 23%
ByBrainTrust December 13, 2023December 13, 2023
Cybercrime in Australia 2022 If we had a physical crime rate that went up 23% annually there would be a mass outcry. Call it “cyber”-crime and it is simply put down to the price of living in this online world. The total heist from Australian citizens for 2022, was over 3 Billion dollars. If you…
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Dr. Eric Nepute Wins Case Against FTC & DOJ
ByBrainTrust December 12, 2023December 13, 2023
3 Years of Unlimited Government Funds vs One Doctor With a $500 Billion fine at stake, this is one of the biggest court cases in history with a result that should have rocked the world. It should have stirred up all medical professionals and should have made headlines in all media. When I heard about…
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“Ignore The Data” – This Is The New Scientific Method
ByBrainTrust December 11, 2023December 12, 2023
How The Scientific Method Works For Me I have spent my life, solving technical problems. I can even say, that I have managed to solve problems that nobody else has managed to do, as I have used the Scientific Method is my own work, every day. All too often, I have looked up and found…
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Privacy – “But I Have Nothing To Hide”
ByBrainTrust December 9, 2023December 9, 2023
I hear this often from people. Fortunately, for all of us, this is true. Sharing is Caring People are generally very open and like sharing their stories, which includes just “loving” platforms such as Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc. as these allow you to do it for free. with very little effort, from anywhere,…
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De-Banking – The Power to Take Away All Of Your Money
ByBrainTrust December 6, 2023December 6, 2023
Take a moment to reflect on the following which was published on the Australian Government AUSTRAC website on 29 October 2021. To ensure that you understand that there is no bias in this article, the opening paragraphs are reprinted here: “The issue of de-banking is a complex global problem. Over the past decade, the range…
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EMF Exposure – Our Ticking Bomb
ByBrainTrust December 1, 2023December 6, 2023
As our lust for technology grows, so does out exposure to an ever increasing amount of EMF sources. There is a mounting body of evidence available, that shows that all aspects of your health are affected, to a various degree, by this increased exposure. Industry pressure placed on researchers, has silenced the research. The risks…
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Your Local Area Network is No Longer Private
ByBrainTrust November 26, 2023December 6, 2023
This article will explain why your Local Area Network (LAN) may no longer be as private as you think. I will also give you a guide on what to do to change this back to way it should be … private! Networking 101 There are on two types of network that you need to know…
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Antivirus Software – False Sense of Security
ByBrainTrust November 25, 2023November 25, 2023
Computer Viruses – Good For Business Watch any high technology thriller movie made in the last 15 years and you could be led to believe that a single computer virus could infect all of the world’s computers. Making these movies is good for the movie business, as everybody knows viruses are bad, but the viewer…
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Say Goodbye To Google
ByBrainTrust November 23, 2023November 23, 2023
If you have read the articles written on this website so far, you may be considering saying goodbye to Google, perhaps even to Microsoft and if you haven’t already, Facebook too. In any case, the convenience that these companies have offered you over the years, has left you with a complicated web of dependencies. It…
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Security Versus Accessibility
ByBrainTrust November 16, 2023November 18, 2023
This article details a very important misunderstanding of the concept of “security” in the context of assets and services. Security Does Not Mean Accessibility We listen to advertisers and governments use the term “security” all the time and in all cases are never made aware that accessibility is equally important. Think of it like this….
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Wikipedia – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
ByBrainTrust November 6, 2023November 9, 2023
You would have to live under a rock if you haven’t looked something up in Wikipedia before. In short, almost every person uses it as reference source, much like the Encyclopedia Britannica was used in the past. What started off as being a system that gravitated towards the truth, by allowing anybody to go in…
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Push Notifications – Your Hidden Addiction
ByBrainTrust November 5, 2023November 14, 2023
What is Addiction? In general, we have a good understanding of things that people can get addicted to. Wikipedia has a good overview of some of the more common ones. Needless to say, all humans can, and do, get addicted to various things in their life, at some time or another. The thing about addiction…
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Google Owns You – Time To Say Goodbye
ByBrainTrust November 4, 2023November 23, 2023
Google started off as a free search engine, built using some high speed Linux servers. Now it has grown into a $1.426 Trillion company. The 4th largest in the world. Google has embedded themselves in so many people’s lives, you would be forgiven if you thought it was impossible to leave them behind. This is…
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ARC – Hope for Humanity
ByBrainTrust November 2, 2023December 6, 2023
Over the last few days, I have discovered, hope for humanity. After years of watching the World Economic Forum (WEF), work diligently at tearing humanity apart, we have a new group of elites, this time, they are elite minds, rather than wealthy elites. “The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is an international community with a…
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