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
-
Show this thread
-
Items on the list are either loci of vulnerability (Apple because all my devices are Apple) or sources of malicious action, or both
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Did I miss any big categories? What’s your order of likelihood?
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
“Trusted third parties are security holes” = every platform you have an account on is a big gaping hole https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/ …
1 reply 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
Right now, healthcare access is not even on the list despite Covid but that will shoot to top as I age of course.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Interesting what’s not on the list: nuclear war, terrorist attacks, physical crime (mugging, kidnapping, break-ins etc)
1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
The last one is a function of simply choosing safer places with adequate physical security to live in... which could get harder over time
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
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)
1 reply 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
The world has become a systematically riskier place in the last 5 years
1 reply 0 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
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
1 reply 1 retweet 13 likesShow this thread
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.
-
-
-
Replying to @jasonwbade @vgr
Always thought these folks had an interesting idea of what’s up: http://www.skollglobalthreats.org/
0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.