This especially seems hard to certify. Bitcoin aims to be quasi anonymous. Users could just log into their own systems and transfer coins to another anonymous wallet elsewhere and then try and claim robbery. Or be rooted (by say script kiddies) and then take advantage of that, transfer coins, and try and claim for them.
They end result is something like bitcoin would seem nearly impossible to insure for in any reasonable way.
Isn't this akin a bit to storing a bag with $12K in a storage locker in a public space and then asking to reimbursed after robbers broke into the locker and stole the bag.
I think the author is hoping for way too much. The world doesn't work that way, nor probably can or should it.
It's actually a bit worse than this -- basically this is analogous to putting the $12k in a storage locker and then posting on the internet the exact location of the locker.
Given that a bitcoin client was almost certainly running on this box, basically anyone could have connected to the bitcoin network and established this guy's IP address as a target.
If you run bitcoin software, you are advertising your IP address as a high value target.
They end result is something like bitcoin would seem nearly impossible to insure for in any reasonable way.
Isn't this akin a bit to storing a bag with $12K in a storage locker in a public space and then asking to reimbursed after robbers broke into the locker and stole the bag.
I think the author is hoping for way too much. The world doesn't work that way, nor probably can or should it.