My threat model, right now (likelihood not severity)
Identity thieves > mass ransomware/malware attacks > Natural disasters > Apple > US government > China/Russia > Other big platforms > Geopolitical crisis supply disruptions > Financial system collapse > Long-term mad-maxery
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Items on the list are either loci of vulnerability (Apple because all my devices are Apple) or sources of malicious action, or both
“Trusted third parties are security holes” = every platform you have an account on is a big gaping hole nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-
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Right now, healthcare access is not even on the list despite Covid but that will shoot to top as I age of course.
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Interesting what’s not on the list: nuclear war, terrorist attacks, physical crime (mugging, kidnapping, break-ins etc)
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The last one is a function of simply choosing safer places with adequate physical security to live in... which could get harder over time
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Type of risk is an interesting variable
- Risk of kafkaesque bureaucratic ooga-booga
- Risk of physical violence
- Risk of financial loss
- Risk of confinement/incarceration
- Rusk of access denial (to places/people)
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The world has become a systematically riskier place in the last 5 years
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Risk of physical violence has gone down for most people, but weird stack risks to your extended civilizational phenotype has gone way up
Identity theft wasn’t even really a thing 50 years ago. People could impersonate you with fake/stolen id in a distant place but not globally
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Weird that this shit is getting to be as foundational to quality of life as budgeting, retirement planning, diet and exercise
My mom isn’t even online and my dad barely is — just email and WhatsApp. No banking etc. They have little to no direct attack surface there.
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