Oh I understand now, you are either troll, Israeli troll or incredibly dense. Please educate yourself.
Why are trying not to take sides?The one side is commiting genocide against the other!There is very VERY clear wrong and right side here.
Another way to say this is that a hacker needs only access to your private network to gain control of all connected devices.IMO this is hardly worth it when the benefits are I can check my oven remotely or I can check what the vacuum is doing.I tend to not buy connected devices if it can be avoided.
No, digital attacks happen all the time, nobody will go to war over it.Example of only one type of attack in real time: https://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&list=0&time=18763&view=map
It was almost a reality https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/
That is true for Linux and maybe Mac, but on windows I think they have a bit more overhead. But again I agree that in most cases it is not significant.
Can't you run if from a container? I guess the will slow it down, but it will deny access to your files.
You can patent it, but here comes the patent trolls.Patent trolls are companies that generate hundrets of as vague as possible patents and then sue you if you try to patent something similar.This has also beed done by companies like Apple.You don't really have a good recourse when you a fighting an army of lawyers.Additionally depending on where you are patent that you file may be entirely ignored on the other side of the globe.Chinese companies are infamous for doing that, but history shows that American companies also did this before their economic boom.Other options are to use some kind of license. Very often this is used when we are talking about code.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/we-jews-are-just-arrested-palestinians-are-beaten-german-protesters
In this case the players make the game at least a bit.