A great deal of benefits from calming the spirits with backed statements to increased confidence in their company name.
Oh yes. Inspire confidence in their company name by fullfilling the demands of a lunatic on the forum and breaking their
company-wide privacy policy in order to do so. Did you forget a pill this morning?
None of that personal info is required to check if stolen coins have been transferred to the exchange in the last 24h.
Neither is
your involvement. None of
your involvement is necessary either! MtGox is already doing this
on their own I'm sure. Why do they need to break their own Privacy Policy and
lose support from their members just so you can be satisfied?
Other exchanges work in the same way.
I wonder if they could still tag these addresses as "user addresses" not linking them to any particular user. Given the amount of users they have, the level of anonymity would be more than acceptable.
Probably not, but none of us need to know the addresses that go through MtGox. Only MtGox needs to know. All we need to know is what MtGox is going to do about it if they find one, and that is up to them to tell us, since we agree to the user agreement when we make our accounts and we support them as a community by giving them our business.
Since MtGox already
stated publicly that the coins were not the same ones, it's very clear he's just out to cause trouble.