If someone came to your house and r*aped and murdered and kidnapped your family, how would you respond differently? Would you send them humanitarian aid? Would you see them as humans? Would you not erase their land?
Answer honestly
These 12 words might be as sensitive (if not more) than the words that allow me to send #bitcoin. They're the seed phrase for my digital identity, which is tied to rw identity. The downstream interactions are far more complex than something used to write txs on a timechain.
If someone gets my bitcoin seed phrase, all that money in that wallet is gone; they can impoverish me. Someone gets my nsec, they can *be* me, which could be worse.
What can guard against this? Something like this: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/282
Your digital identity should NEVER be that critical to keep private. There should always be a way to restart using a real life meeting.