#+title:      Threat model
#+date:       [2023-05-26 ven. 04:12]
#+filetags:   :privacy:
#+identifier: 20230526T041257

Threat models – so called “privacy” – can be personal or political.

For example, [[denote:20230526T041233][OpenPGP]] can be marginally useful for a small subset of personal threat models, like fiscal fraud, but definitely not for political ones.

A personal threat model, of course, is related to information you want to hide to someone abusing or trying to abuse you – a spouse, a parent, the State, /etc/.

A political one is related to avoiding a surveillance-based dystopia, recording information about political opponents, /etc/. Mass surveillance relies on metadata, /i.e./ not making sense of one's exhaustive profile but comparing their data points to these of everyone else.

The [[denote:20230526T040449][Tor browser]] is super useful against both threat models, up to and including the State.