The losses were reversed because the system was exploited, not because someone had a close connection with one of the devs. Had they not forked the network righ

The losses were reversed because the system was exploited, not because someone had a close connection with one of the devs. Had they not forked the network right then and there they would only be facing more of the same in the future, reducing the reliability of ETH down to 0. No forks have been made since the incident, and I would hazard to say none of the devs are planning on forking anytime soon either. I think one of the problems in this space is that people treat their addresses like bank accounts when they should be treating them like cardboard boxes. Sure, you can put your money in it, but you only keep your money so long as nobody finds your box. Therefore, you should make as many cardboard boxes as possible and spread your wealth such that breaking into any individual cardboard box is worthless, and breaking into all of them would take so much time it effectively becomes impossible. In terms of securing keys, that's also a difficulty, but that's the price you pay for this sort of experience. Any entity that could reverse your losses could also make transactions on your behalf - ruining the point of decentralizing in the first place.