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Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.
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Matt--Thanks for coming over to clarify the Hint POV. But why did you choose to send it from Hint instead of from, "Hi, I'm Matt Gagnon, and here's what happened and why I'm sending this"? I assume the answer is that it was an opportunity to put the name of your new project in front of a ton of people very quickly, unless this sort of thing will be Hint's purpose.
And of course, if that was the intention, it worked--I have to admit, I am quite curious to see what Hint turns out to be, beyond the vague description that's there.
I love the word "scamalicious." :-)
The people behind hint.io seem to be reasonably reputable people, based on a little Googling. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a matter of a sold database, since it was posted on the Pirate Bay. So far, it seems to be all in an honest desire to do the right thing, although I am entirely willing to believe that hint.io did it for the publicity to get their beta rolling. The whois info says that the domain was just registered Nov 24, less than three weeks ago.
Domain Handle : DOM-95770
Domain Name : HINT.IO
Organization Name : Dru Wynings
Created : November 24 2010.
Last Updated : November 24 2010.
Expires : November 24 2011.
Primary Nameserver
Nameserver : NS1.MEDIATEMPLE.NET
Secondary Nameserver
Nameserver : NS2.MEDIATEMPLE.NET
(Rest of the contact info is all him as well.)