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is your voice part of your threat model?
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I am unaware, and I'm just here to ask what is a threat model?
A list of threats most likely to occur basically. It can differ between people as well.
Ex: someone living in New York City wouldn't prioritize hiding their location as much as somebody living in a 1000-person small town.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/threat-modeling/
TL;DR What you want to protect and who you want to protect it from in terms of both security AND privacy (which are differentiated in the previous section: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/#what-is-privacy)