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.
That's correct -- he wasn't at fault. The email name expired and somebody else grabbed it and re-registered it.
However, you could argue that's even poor security since they don't own the email, and relied on a third party.
That's true but its also poor form to accept what the new owner would write under his name w/o some sort of PGP signature proof... unless its Luke-Jr I suppose.
Dude seemed to be begging for a security incident like this to happen. I call it karma for using his position to unilaterally stifle one of the most innovative platforms to ever be built atop Bitcoin.
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