# Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism/31321
**Category:** General
**Created:** 2025-09-23T14:12:26Z
**Posts:** 5

## Post 1 by @jonah — 2025-09-23T14:12:27Z

> **[Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism)**
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> Authoritarian threats, coupled with ongoing corporate surveillance, demand that we rethink how we use digital technologies.

New article by **Bruce Schneier** for Lawfare.

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## Post 2 by @anon57862721 — 2025-09-23T14:17:24Z

Didn’t know about Lawfare. TIL. Thanks for sharing.

Do you know if they have RSS? Cause I can’t subscribe.

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## Post 3 by @anon57441094 — 2025-09-23T19:44:35Z

The “Subscribe” button on the site took me to a page listing all their RSS feeds (they have a lot :eyes:): [www.lawfaremedia.org/subscribe](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/subscribe)

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## Post 4 by @anon57862721 — 2025-09-23T19:59:50Z

Excellent! Thank you so much!

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## Post 5 by @anon92357554 — 2025-09-23T23:45:14Z

Great article, especially this:

> **Being Innocent Won’t Protect You**
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> This is vital to understand. Surveillance systems and sorting algorithms make mistakes. This is apparent in the fact that we are routinely served advertisements for products that don’t interest us at all. Those mistakes are relatively harmless—who cares about a poorly targeted ad?—but a similar mistake at an immigration hearing can get someone deported.
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> An authoritarian government doesn’t care. Mistakes are a feature and not a bug of authoritarian surveillance. If ICE targets only people it can go after legally, then everyone knows whether or not they need to fear ICE. If ICE occasionally makes mistakes by [arresting Americans](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/george-retes-ice-detained-us-citizen/684152/) and deporting innocents, then everyone has to fear it. This is by design.