> someone who has some idea what they're talking about
"I suspected someone used a 0day on me" is not exactly inspiring confidence
"I suspected someone used a 0day on me" is not exactly inspiring confidence
"Initially I imagined I was targeted by a 0day or rootkit"
which actually does not make sense, because it implies he thinks those two things are fungible. He's obviously not a security expert, but he's also obviously not totally technically incompetent.
Way to make yourself feel important. It's not that you made some terrible choices yourself, like using a known-insecure password manager SaaS, or putting real money into crypto. Nono, somebody pulled a 0day on me, what can ya do? Shrugs
Also the people talking about “burning zero days”… every time you use an exploit (ignoring the exact meaning of 0 days) it doesn’t become burned by the first person. The hacker could use it on hundreds of people before it’s discovered and patched by whatever software it targets. That could take months.