People discuss this as if they connected their phones to their computers more than once in the past 5 years.

We are at war last time I checked. Attacks are below a threshold for response (sabotage, inciting domestic terrorism). This is a similar, non-conventional and adequate response.

He doesn’t hold any elected office, isn’t a government employee. He can afford the protection but most of us can’t.

Private citizens hire privatised security service to be safe from attacks by foreign state actors because European states lost control of this war that is already going on? That’s a new one.