Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 09:01:13 AM

[...]

But... these are well known... Do you think that Luke-Jr was not aware of such procedures and he made am amateur mistake...?

Quote from: Welsh on Today at 04:29:57 PM

For example, I believe Satoshi's email was compromised, despite them being something of a security expert to implement what they did into Bitcoin. Now, I can't remember the specifics so it may have been that Satoshi wasn't at fault, and the company that hosted it was. However, you could argue that's even poor security since they don't own the email, and relied on a third party.

Regarding Satoshi's email, it wasn't his fault. It wasn't even the fault of the email provider. The email address simply expired and someone tenacious enough, which probably followed that email everyday (or maybe someone very, very lucky), found the exact day when the email could be registered again.

It may sound incredible, but I am sure that there are people around the world which pursue such moments, hoping that their victim forgot about -- whatever thing they look for. For example, I remember a post related to prolonging expiry date for bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org. Don't you think that there are also many malevolent (I mean no pun toward our malevolent

) individuals, which keep counting until these domains expires, eagerly waiting to see if either Cøbra or theymos maybe forgot to pay for the domains and, if such thing would happen, they would quickly buy the domains? Same happened to Satoshi's email, I guess...

About Luke-Jr, maybe he will come up here and describe the situation a bit more, thus we can also understand what really happened...