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>Fall for spoofed email sender

>Keep your crypto on an exchange

This gets the same level of sympathy as a person without backups suffering from data loss.

I think that’s a pretty unsympathetic take. Hindsight is 2020 but there are factors outside the author’s control (synced MFA, Gmail not detecting the spoofed address)

Cloud sync is not out of one's control, and complaining that Gmail did not automatically detect the spoofed address is an inversion of assumption. It's like dropping your icecream and then being mad nobody caught it for you.

Is the average user (someone who "works in tech" even!) really so uninvolved in their own security? Are they not expected to hold any responsibility whatsoever?

No more deserving than any other of the crypto cultists.

Whether you fall for an elaborate phish, or if your Ponzi-token predictably loses value after your 'investment' was cashed out as an earlier adopter's profit, it's all the same to me.

Alternatively your hardware wallet bricks itself or three of your disks fail at once.

I don't care. You lost the money when you first exchanged it for worthless tokens.

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