Security – encryption and threat model

A nice threat model for determining level of security required

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/introduction-threat-modeling

  1. What do you want to protect?
  2. Who do you want to protect it from?
  3. How likely is it that you will need to protect it?
  4. How bad are the consequences if you fail?
  5. How much trouble are you willing to go through in order to try to prevent those?

And here’s the extreme version of laptop security

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/