# Threat Model Thursday: Files

DevFeed: [Threat Model Thursday: Files](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/threat-model-thursday-files-37075.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/tmt-files/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2020-01-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [integrity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/integrity.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>)

Tags: [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/filesystems.md>), [fsync](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fsync.md>), [integrity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrity.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [mental-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mental-models.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary examines how filesystem abstractions leak through interactions between performance, reliability, and fsync behavior. It argues that unexpected storage behavior reflects bugs and design issues rather than an operating-system tampering threat, while threat modeling remains useful for identifying security and integrity concerns.

## Source excerpt

Have you considered the idea that "Files are Fraught With Peril" lately? Maybe you should...