The main objective of this post is to discover the most implemented threat model levels in this community.
What's a threat model?
A low threat model generally means you value convenience over privacy & security while a high threat model means you’re willing to go the extra mile for your privacy & security.
This will help figure out the balance between users, and will give a general idea about everybody’s thought process.
The voting will always be active for new users to be able to join. Note: this test will be heavily influenced by self bias, try to give a reasonable answer that fits you.
Rate your level of threat modeling with 1 being the lowest and 20 being the highest.
What do the numbers mean?
To understand the voting system I have split the numbers into zones:
Zone 1 is 1-5 and would be something like: I don’t care about P&S
Zone 2 is 5-10 and would be something like: I care about P&S but I don’t want it to affect my daily use
Zone 3 is 10-15 and would be something like: I do care about P&S and I am willing to sacrifice usability
Zone 4 is 15-20 and would be something like: I have a very high threat model and I need to be constantly worrying about P&S.
What if you personally do not have to care about P&S as much, but have contact to people that need C&S, or otherwise they might be in huge trouble (e.g. anti Putin people in Russia)
Seems like we’re a Zone 3 crowd.
Makes sense. We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t care at all. That negates Zone 1.
Zone 2 is interested but wants no inconvenience, so probably couldn’t be bothered to fill out a survey.
And Zone 4 thinks posting their threat level will get them disappeared.
I think it will remain predominantly Level 3 even if 10k more users chime in.