D01 · Deep dive
The Threat Model: What a Privacy Kit Protects, From Whom, and Why Narrow Is a Feature
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The specification the Communication Suite is built to: why the Design Rationale exists, the standing caveat that scopes every claim, what the kit protects (the link between a person and their pattern of life), passive versus active collection, and the six adversary tiers from ad-tech to nation-state signals intelligence, with which ones are in scope.
What you’ll learn
- Know the protected asset
- Know the six adversary tiers and their scope
- Understand why every claim is scoped
Chapters
The honest limits
Against a targeted investigator the kit only raises the cost; seizure of an unlocked device, coercion and nation-state signals intelligence are explicit non-goals; protection against mobile carriers is partial. Lab results are IPv4.