Privacy is not a game of absolutes

This is quite an astute observation and one that I struggle with. I have taken the path of running my home office network like a full blown enterprise network, only scaled down a bit. I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s. If we likened my knowledge base to a 25’ tape measure, I possess about a 1/4 " of knowledge on the topic, but that leaves soooo much I don’t know. The further down the rabbit hole you go, the more you understand that, realistically speaking, the only truly safe network is one that is turned off. So you have to make concessions. Is Scenario #6 something that I can 100% control? If not, then you plug and patch what you can, and monitor the rest, and that’s the best that can be done for Scenario #6. This drives me crazy because I think, can I not mitigate Scenario #6 because I lack 24’ 11 3/4" of knowledge, or that it’s just one of those things that you just have to do what you can with what you have, and monitor the rest.