Looks to me like the guy is just more comfortable maintaining control of other people's BTC rather than giving the control up to either the rightful owner or anyone else. I guess he just wants to keep them safe and protected. I mean even a rightful owner can make mistakes and lose control of their own BTC and that would be bad. Strateman is a knowledgeable and skilled security professional so it probably makes more sense that he retains control of things. In his mind.
Haha! I see where you are going with this.
Hey, Strateman said somewhere that 'if something happened to him' a couple of other people had access to the wallet backup, or something like that. Might have been talking about Bitcoinica.
Does 'something' include going bonkers?