I am of course willing to help out with this if anyone does need someone to claim their stake for them and hold it until they can actually have Internet access to claim their coins. Hopefully we can figure out a more elegant solution OR hopefully we don't run into many of these cases at all for it to be an issue, although I'm sure we will at least a bit.
Offering to help is very kind of you. But if your computer is hacked and you lose all the coins, it would be disastrous for you and people will doubt your sincerity even if you genuinely lost them to hackers.
I would advise against anyone holding these coins for people.
People are never forgiving if something like that happens.
That's why I strongly recommend multisig to be implemented at launch. Too many coins are at stake, including the devs coins in safekeeping. Go on to that thread and vote for multisig!
Already voted for multisig. I agree, it's a risk, but if they are going to lose their coins anyway by not being able to claim then I'd take the risk. I'm fairly confident in my personal security, which is not to say I could never be hacked (we all know that's always a possibility) but I take the security of my computer very seriously because I have to for my business as I handle confidential data on a regular basis.
But yes, this is a last resort type of scenario I'm talking about here. If we can work out any other kind of solution first then for sure that would be the way to go. I just want to do whatever I can to prevent someone from losing their stake, even if it means putting myself and my reputation at risk.