Thanks for that info - it is a long post but an informative and important one so I took the time and read it though, then I went right away to steemd and checked what privileges have been granted by me to dmania, busy and so on and I am happy to say it's only the posting key :) so I'm calm now.

it's frustrating that a person can't have a normal private way to trade crypto - in my country people often just meet and transfer crypto for cash but it's not practical for very large amounts of crypto I guess :/
I hope Bitshares will get things working again - I really like this service.