Criticisms of threat modeling

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I’m against the concept of threat modeling because in my opinion, privacy is not about an individual choice (putting aside the very real exceptions like journalists or activists). IMO, privacy should be a collective choice and a political statement: “hey, we’re not ok with this massive surveillance sh*t.”

I’ll quote myself:

Governments impact on apps

I think the point of going private is more a value and to some extent a political statement. A strong majority of people don’t like having their data taken or collected, but most don’t take actions to protect themselves for many different reasons. But the privacy community do have a voice and by doing all the efforts to go private and by educating and making people aware that there are choices, the more people switch, the more it sends a message not only to the market, but to governments as wel…