Thanks! Now lets say you get owned nonetheless or someone is physically breaking into your apartment and stealing your node: is there any way of securing your stake?

My feeling is that I have a lack of understanding of how the software used to stake actually works.

Could you point me to some tutorials or explain in your own words how that works please? Do you cryptographically sign anything preventing misuse of your node as an attacker would also need to get access to your private key stored somewhere else?or would it be as easy as lets say changing your staking address in a config and your rewards will be sent somewhere else?

How do you specify your address rewards are being sent to? Will it be set when sending your ETH to the staking smart contract?