Yes, and in middle ages they loved to torture and mutilate people

I work at electricity distribution, can confirm, we never have any issues, it is evil spirits, not us.

You can add IPS to port to add some security checking, but yes, in general port is never secure or unsecure.

Everybody knew were the ship was, because at that time star link usage by area was shown publicly. There was map online that showed all clients online.