Comment Re:Actual PhD students getting slandered? (Score 1) 448
He did not confirm a device, though I didn't ask. He confirmed his involvement in biz.dev, and said it was only part time. He expressed personal confidence in the project, but that's all.
There was one odd thing. I sent email to him @ucla. He replied from wetaginc.com explaining that it is because iFind isn't related to UCLA. Then he offered to send an empty message from the UCLA account. I glanced at the headers of his email and found references to eigbox.net, which seems to be implicated in SPAM related stuff. It could be innocent. He may just be being careful to separate his professional activities, and his email provider/ISP may use eigbox. Or there could be a MITM thing going on. A group looking to KS scam $1/2M could certainly be savvy enough to impersonate the people who's names were stolen.
My level of curiosity isn't high enough to pursue any further. ;)
There was one odd thing. I sent email to him @ucla. He replied from wetaginc.com explaining that it is because iFind isn't related to UCLA. Then he offered to send an empty message from the UCLA account. I glanced at the headers of his email and found references to eigbox.net, which seems to be implicated in SPAM related stuff. It could be innocent. He may just be being careful to separate his professional activities, and his email provider/ISP may use eigbox. Or there could be a MITM thing going on. A group looking to KS scam $1/2M could certainly be savvy enough to impersonate the people who's names were stolen.
My level of curiosity isn't high enough to pursue any further.