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Blueprint for Free Speech TIMRA 2025 pre-training questionnaire

3 July 2025



This questionnaire contains 20 questions.
About our survey This survey helps our trainers and research team understand the cybersecurity risk landscape better. We want to know what participants in our training days need to in order to help them be more cybersecure. We use the survey data for two reasons: 1. to improve the preparation for giving training sessions and 2. to produce scholarly academic works in partnership with our university research partners. The high level benefit to you is we will use the responses to improve cybersecurity overall for everyone. Participants will not be identified, and responses will be pooled so any risk of re-identification is small. The survey is voluntary. You do not have to do the survey and you do not have to complete it if you start it. You can skip any question. You can stop and exit at any time. All answers are de-identified; your responses are anonymous. If you would like to contact us about the survey, or receive a copy of any related academic papers, please feel free to reach us at: [email protected] or +61-494 023 384 (WhatsApp).

1. Which computer operating system (OS) do you use?

2. How sure are you that the operating system you use is licensed (not pirated)?

3. Which smartphone OS do you use?

4. Does your phone still receive OS or security updates?

5. What OS version is your phone using?

You can usually find this information in your phone's Settings app under 'About'

6. Does anyone else (including family) use your phone?

7. Do you use your phone solely for work, or for personal use too?

7. Do you use your phone solely for work, or for personal use too?
A
B
C

8. Do you use a password manager?

9. Do you use multi-factor authentication (two step verification) on any of your online accounts (Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, iCloud, etc)?

10. Is your computer's whole-hard-drive encryption (BitLocker, File Vault) enabled?

11. Which method do you use to unlock your smartphone?

Select as many as apply
11. Which method do you use to unlock your smartphone?
A
B
C
D
E
F

12. How often do you send SMS messages?

13. How often do you install new apps on your phone?

14. Which of the following messenger apps do you use?

Select as many as apply
14. Which of the following messenger apps do you use?
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M

15. Which of the following online services have you used in the past two weeks?

Select as many as apply
15. Which of the following online services have you used in the past two weeks?
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V

16. Do you use online banking?

Select as many as apply
16. Do you use online banking?

17. When did you last back up your computer?

18. Where does your computer back up to?

18. Where does your computer back up to?
A
B
C
D
E
F
G

19. Where does your biggest threat come from?

19. Where does your biggest threat come from?
A
B
C
D

20. Are you able to install software and updates on the computer you are bringing to the conference?