Online Dating Security + 🇩🇪 TMC DACH Threat Modeling Feierabend

On a content level, it is particularly exciting how Online Dating is

  • 75% reusable standard tech building blocks:
    • :puzzle_piece: Providing low-barrier (+free) service to strangers on the internet
    • :puzzle_piece: Usable secure authentication
    • :puzzle_piece: Public profiles
    • :puzzle_piece: Current user location tracking
    • :puzzle_piece: Private messaging, special case: 1-on-1, between strangers, after mutual consent
    • :puzzle_piece: User - Client - Service - Server - Database architecture
    • :puzzle_piece: App store client distribution
  • 20% domain specific to (online) dating
    • :puzzle_piece: Swipe & Match
    • :puzzle_piece: Flirting & Dating
  • only 5% what you build

… very much related to what we discussed about Threat Libraries