Quote from: bitmover on June 22, 2018, 04:46:17 PM

Quote from: cellard on June 22, 2018, 02:52:01 PM

Quote from: Vod on June 22, 2018, 12:45:08 PM

Quote from: cellard on June 22, 2018, 11:42:19 AM

It's been years since we've had people in endless queues waiting to get a message back from either Cyrus or theymos, and none of them answering for some reason, even after sufficient cryptographic proof was presented (typically, a signed bitcoin address).

Here is what I don't understand.... Theymos is intelligent when it comes to programming. He could easily create a type of account that had limited moderator abilities - specifically the security rights to unlock an account. A trusted user (like me) could spend some time to review signed messages and restore accounts, reducing workload.

I guess he just does not prioritize account recovery. I understand his reasoning, since losing your account is, in most cases, your fault.

Unfortunate events can happen to everyone. Even satoshi lost his gmx account and said account got eventually hacked and exploited. It can happen to anyone. Keeping email accounts and forum passes online it's not the same as keeping your private keys offline (which never touch the internet). As soon as something touches the internet there is a % of disaster out of your reach, like a security breach on the email provider's side and so on.

I agree. Everyone can be hacked. Maybe not everyone ,but most of people. not everyone here is a cyber security expert, there is a lot of diversification here in this forum.

people have different life styles. Some people use multiple devices (if someone travels a lot), or they can trust some third party password manager that got hacked... There are many things out of our control, and one security solution that works for one person may not work for another as they have different habits

It's not even a matter of being a cyber security expert. It's only a matter of time and everyone will get their password stolen or somehow compromised, it's going to happen to everyone because of reasons out of your control.

Again, one just can't "cold storage passwords". Passwords are exposed online daily, by necessity, this is an huge attack vector, that can come from the forum, from the email provider, and so on. This is why Bitcoin is genius, the cold storaged private keys don't suffer from that. Which is why also account recovery, when presented with signed private addresses, should have high priority and the recovery should be fast, not take months, sometimes not even happening.