Gaming mouse can be turned into makeshift microphone to spy on you

Yeah this is in accordance with LightningToaster comment as well regarding starting to properly threat model.

To me, such a tool would either be used by an information agency (although there are probably better tools) or a stalker, or companies trying to spy on other companies.

The thing is : I think most people (including me) don’t want the hassle to properly threat model.

It is easier to just implement everything and be protected from everything with a “fit all possible threats” solution rather than actually spending the time to understand how each and every threat (be it agencies, government, companies, hackers, stalkers, etc.), and the proper solution to implement again that specific threat.

And that’s even more true of people who are not technical.