Project idea: Allow users to choose privacy and security configurations based on threat model
At the recent applications team meeting in Sweden, Mullvad and Tor developers discussed the following idea:
Create a threat model startup check This would show on the homepage the following
- whether your settings are correct based on your current threat model.
- whether your fingerprint is correct (depends on
about:fingerprint
)- warn if settings/fingeprint doesn't match and recommend action
- display your current threat model (depends on threat model being defined)
However one could imagine it would be useful to provide settings defaults for the various threat models users can choose from too. In addition to forward-positioning this choice during onboarding, this may also be a nice way to approach the restructuring of about:preferences#privacy
in tpo/applications/tor-browser#27605.