fenalphthalein

Sounds like this person was really smart to begin with. High-level societal awareness caused them to choose the private route, and focus on releasing something for the greater good.

I wouldn't be surprised if this person never even took a single bitcoin for themselves, other than the ones used for code testing purposes. That would create another avenue for people to come after them if it became public that they hoarded some of the Bitcoin for themselves.

Honest inquiry here - What I don't understand is how people think the identification of Satoshi is "bound to happen". What did the person do wrong, exactly?

Based on how I understand it, if the person did nothing wrong by inventing Bitcoin, no investigation will occur and no judge will sign off on a search warrant to get the ID data. No private investigator will be able to obtain the data either, as ISPs wouldn't just dish out private info like that without a warrant.

Did the inventor of Bitcoin do something wrong to allow for a judge to violate their privacy in a court case? That's the only way I see the info getting out, but is there a crime to allow that situation to arise?

What other (legal or illegal) path is there to identify a person who posted something online?

This is my personal take: People are sometimes tricked by natural human instinct into performing actions that give benefit to a simple human need ("it's just easier for me") at the detriment of higher-level outcomes (in this case, password security).

It's simply easier for me, as a human, to remember that my password for all websites is Hunter2, rather than spend the extra time, create a password manager account, store passwords, utilize best password management practices, etc. Not saying this is what I do, but for many people, this is how they remember their password(s).

Maybe I should have changed the "tricked into" to "trick themselves", but I'm just a human and this was easier for me.

After reading the article, I think it's more that people were tricked into [reusing passwords across websites instead of having a password manager and randomized passwords].

It's not on 23andMe, or anyone (other than the user) for that matter, to ensure the passwords used by the user are not copied passwords from other credentials.

Seems to me like passwords need to be regulated on a governmental level, but that's a can of worms of an idea that I am not ready to defend.