He is already pretty private. But him being accurate with his S2F and S2FX in the long term is obviously going to give him a lot of attention, and it’s probably something he doesn’t want. And not to mention that he could mess up with his netsec somewhere down the road, potentially exposing his real identity.

Though he’s not someone like Satoshi, dude’s just playing it safe, which is the smarter thing to do.