(17/N) Finally, two threat types that refer to security more than privacy:

#Obstructing

An adversary destroys, withdraws, steals or misappropriates information, access, or resources. The obstruction can be temporary or permanent, partial or total. Obstructing can also occur unintentionally, with the “adversary” being deterioration, malfunction, or disaster.

#Interfering

An adversary deliberately corrupts the integrity or authenticity of information, resources, processes, or interactions. The respective information, resources, processes, or interactions aren’t necessarily controlled or owned by the persons that are affected, and may also be fabricated. Interfering can also occur unintentionally, with the “adversary” being deterioration, malfunction, or disaster.

Start of this thread:
https://mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228291818865

(14/N) Having familiarized ourselves with categories of adversaries, their main goals and their respective, overall "modus operandi", let's look at the types of threats posed by them.

Again, it pays to focus on types of threats: We don't want to become mainly alert-triggered, but proactive. There are several frameworks we can borrow ideas from, most notably the LINDDUN framework that is geared toward threats to privacy, and can be extended a bit to cover more ground.

First, our list of threat types:

• #Linking (spotting connections and relationships)
• #Identifying (mapping to identities)
• Undesirable #NonRepudiation or #repudiation
• #Detecting (absence or presence of indicators)
• Data #disclosure (to the unauthorized)
• Manufacturing cooperation (disguised or imposed bad consequences)
• #Obstructing (access, information, resources)
• #NonCompliance
• #Interfering (with information, resources, processes, interactions)

Our definitions of these, for our context:

Linking

An adversary can figure out connections and relationships between formerly isolated items of interest.

Identifiying

An adversary can link items of interest directly to a natural person.

(to be continued)

Start of this thread:
https://mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228291818865

LINDDUN:
https://linddun.org/

The case w/the potential to undermine charges against #Trump, spurred behind-the-scenes footwork by the justices, incl the mysterious reassignment of a majority opinion.

#FischervUnitedStates, posed the question: Had prosecutors overreached in charging some #Jan6 *rioters* under a #law originally aimed at white-collar crime? Of the ~1,500 people who had been indicted in the Capitol attack as of June, when Fischer was decided, ~250 cases included a charge of #obstructing an official proceeding.

After the #Jan6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged >350 participants in #Trump’s #insurrectionist mob w/ #obstructing or impeding an official proceeding. The charge carries a 20-yr maximum penalty & is part of a #law enacted after the exposure of massive #fraud & shredding of documents during the collapse of the energy giant Enron.

#AileenCannon did not indicate when she would issue a formal ruling on #Trump’s bid to toss out the #evidence.

The #FBI agents who searched #MarALago in Aug 2022 found HUNDREDS of #ClassifiedDocuments strewn throughout Trump’s living area. Trump is charged w/ illegally hoarding #NationalSecrets after he left office & #obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. [not that she cares about #NationalSecurity]

All 5 defendants were convicted of #felony #CivilDisorder & 1 count of #assaulting a #police officer in addition to multiple #trespassing-related misdemeanors. Samsel, Grant & Johnson were convicted of #obstructing an official proceeding, but Blythe & Randolph were acquitted of those counts. A written order will be posted later.