This is quite irrelevant. When the service initially launched, we didn't have a bitcoind server at all. That's why I was quite confident about security (and the trading volume is not that huge).

Both major incidents happen due to bitcoind problems (while we are trying to find alternate solutions), and there are tons of small incidents happening during development stage, majority are due to bitcoind problems as well.

I'm only a web developer and I know my limitations. This is how I justify the original Hacker News comments.

I'll never handle the wallet.dat again in my life, ever.