> I think you got my critique right: I find it's folly to stake on general purpose computers. Validators are not supposed to run on general purpose computers y

> I think you got my critique right: I find it's folly to stake on general purpose computers. Validators are not supposed to run on general purpose computers you use for other things, they are supposed to be extra hardened against attacks, as they WILL be targeted. A validator won't be running on the same machine someone does general web development on, where you download random packages over npm for example. If someone does run a validator on a machine where they are randomly trust 3rd party code from a public registry, they have zero sense of security. If you run them in a hosted server environment, you better trust that environment to be really secure. If you run it at home, you really need to know what you're doing in regards to software, hardware, networking and physical access. Just like you're not supposed to run production banking infrastructure on home computers, validators are not supposed to run in that environment either.