As I have been tagged, here is my reaction to your post.
This is a useless drama. As @geekgirl wrote, this is just a fun social experiment.
I am also a sort of security paranoid, but I do not find any "security" threat there.
To me, the main thing of this experiment is about trust between people (and I truly believe it won't demonstrate anything else).
The one who sent me the Steem torch money demonstrated he trusted me. If each time we needed the agreement of a person before we could show him our confidence, then the concept of trust would disappear and there would only remain that of contract.
It is the basis of inter-human relationships and it is what sets us apart from the machine.
I was honored by the trust that @emrebeyler placed in me and I think our human relationship has been strengthened. I think it was the same with @howo, to whom I transferred the money, but surely with all the people who follow the torch.
In one of your comments, you wrote:
There is plenty of scam in crypto world and I'm disgusted in such sending money to people that creates even more "area" for scams.
I think, on the contrary, that it is through our collective demonstration that trust is possible that we can reduce the scams "area". Education is not done through fear, but by leading people to adopt positive behavior.
PS: Do I need to have your consent before upvoting your posts, which triggers the system to send you STEEM you potentially could misuse according to my own values? 😉
I have over reacted because in early internet time we always have been flooded with these irritating chain messages. This chain also included money. It looks like some ponzi scheme but no by asking others to defraud but wasting own money, but still.
In theory, when you upvote, you dont want anything in return.