(the reason Tihan keeps repeating that his role was hands off is because he'd lose safe harbour protection from liability if he took part in the day to day running of the company).
He had the critical password, apparently. So while he might be able to wash his hands of responsibility for money-laundering going through his pipelines he remains a prime suspect in the theft. He could have insisted that password be changed had he wanted to wash his hands of that.
-MarkM-
I dont think he had it alone. He was provided with this password at best, Tihan isn't really an IT developer to go through the code base, pull mtgox key and set as a master key in last pass. ZT said he didn't do it
He is competent enough to edit source code files and push commits to github at least.
commit 0f075c054416ebba0f7c0a4809b8394d3a11cca6
Author: mode80
Date: Fri May 4 16:56:05 2012 -0700
Updates deposit page with the Core Credit wire transfer address.
commit 97bbfe51bafb0a99345fcb90000a1e2343a7ed83
Author: mode80
Date: Sat Apr 21 10:54:41 2012 -0700
Fix deposit page brokenness? (take 3)
commit d76c555941f4a7dce53a24cf03c36acf6af2b623
Author: mode80
Date: Sat Apr 21 10:41:18 2012 -0700
Fix deposit page brokenness? (take 2)
commit 47a50db07a01e6c42c858c3de138d616b51a40aa
Author: mode80
Date: Sat Apr 21 10:21:43 2012 -0700
Fixes deposit page brokenness?
commit fe493606b0bb03c212f703c9284a0d9d42416a41
Merge: 520894c 04a6fc4
Author: mode80
Date: Sat Apr 21 09:55:54 2012 -0700
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:bitcoinica/bitcoinica
And some more if you run a git log on the bitcoinica source code that genjix leaked
Tihan is also smart enough to protect his cards while sitting in the #10 seat and still in a hand. This post reminds me of something I read the other day while researching Tihan, but I'm not sure how long it would take for me to re-find it. The dude knows more than what meets the eye, with securing data being one such attribute in his arsenal.