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Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models
A robust threat model defines protected assets, identifies plausible adversaries, maps attack paths, and specifies mitigations while explicitly documenting asset relationships, assumptions, and deliberately out-of-scope threats. Treating threat models as living documents enables continuous refinement as systems and threat landscapes evolve, particularly in decentralized ecosystems like the Fediverse, where key transparency mechanisms introduce unique trust dynamics. Defenders should iterate on models regularly, validate assumptions against real-world telemetry, and align controls with the specific risk posture of their environment.
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