Every security engineer eventually does this to their own life without meaning to. You order coffee and some part of your brain notes that the barista just called your name out loud to a room full of strangers. You join a call and clock that the chat log has no integrity guarantee whatsoever. This is an occupational hazard. Threat Model for Everyone is that hazard, weaponized into a tool.

What is Threat Model for Everyone?

Type in any mundane activity — ordering coffee, a job interview, doing laundry, anything — and get back a complete STRIDE risk assessment: Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, and Elevation of Privilege, each with a threat, a likelihood, a suspiciously specific severity score, and a mitigation that is almost always “None. Accept risk.”

Why does everything reduce to “accept risk”?

Because that is the honest mitigation for most of daily life. You cannot patch your coworker eating your lunch. There is no compensating control for the group chat that reads your message before you do. Occasionally the tool proposes something wildly overbuilt instead — a change-approval board for a potluck — which is its own kind of honesty about how organizations actually respond to small problems.

What is the Man-in-the-Middle bonus row?

A seventh row, dashed border, toggleable off if six categories is plenty. It is not part of STRIDE proper, but daily life runs on relayed messages, forwarded emails, and someone “just summarizing” what you said — so it earned a permanent guest spot, email chains included.

Is this real security advice?

No. It is fake CVSS scores for your Tuesday. If you want to actually learn STRIDE, Microsoft’s original writeup is a solid start; this tool will not teach it to you, it will just make you laugh at your own commute.

The part where I’m briefly sincere

Threat modeling is a habit before it is a methodology — once you start asking “what could go wrong here, and who benefits if it does,” you do not really stop. This tool is what happens when that habit escapes the day job. If it makes one person think about STRIDE for the first time, mission accomplished; if it just makes you laugh at your own lunch order, also mission accomplished.

If you enjoyed this, Certification Cost Calculator and the Career Transition Timeline Generator cover the other two ways engineers self-sabotage for entertainment.

Fair warning: once you start STRIDE-ing your own kettle, there is no documented rollback procedure.