I am trying to get better at threat modeling. Please share personal threat models. The strictness or intensity of your model does not matter.

An example would be SIM swap attacks. My threat model is to use my SIM number only for real time comms. This is so that I don’t tie one phone number to every service that requires a phone number. This is something to think about when handing over personal information e.g. name, phone no., e-mail, ad…

I assume OP has already browsed these, so just to have them on hand for anyone with a similar curiosity, here’s PG’s official knowledge base articles on threat modelling and common threats (to help apply the advice). I personally find these concrete steps from the threat modelling article helpful i…

I think for example, someone not living in an oppressing regime but is concerned about the surveillance as a business model problem with google and meta would do many things to mitigate/minimize as much of the data collection as possible for example: Actively check privacy settings of your phone …

My threat model is to not expose my data to big tech My threat model is to limit my exposure of personal data as much as possible Or something like those is often repeated when people try to threat model, but those aren’t threat models. They are at best vague high level goals. A basic threat …

Thank you all for the responses. I understand the point of threat modeling and the basic questions to ask. I am looking for examples so I can practically make a better model.

A threat model is meant to be made yourself for yourself for your use case and needs. Using someone else’s is not ideal nor the way to go about it. Also, there is no one right answer here so you should use what works for you and how.in

I think theyre asking for examples so that they can infer how exactly they should do it themselves, not so they can copy it. If I explain what my threat model is, how I came to it, what I do as a result of it, and so on, they can infer how they should do it themselves.

I was just about to say, agreed from here

^^, yes. I’m not looking to copy down a threat model. Think of me like an uncreative artist that is looking at someone else’s work so I can perhaps find a different, better approach to painting.

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FranklyFlawless (Frank Lý) February 5, 2026, 4:16am 9

Here is a Purism blog article from Kyle Rankin that thoroughly defines five example threat models against various adversaries:

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