Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
Reading about the programming of the site and the programmer leaving back doors through security, makes me cringe. I don't know very much about programming, but from what I read, customer's information could be compromised.

It is also obvious that Zach and Avi are just the front men in the scheme. The programming, hardware, web services, advertising and purchasing of snakes takes a lot of money. I would guess in the tens of thousands of dollars. More money than I believe Zach and Avi have the ability to invest, given their age and background.

Someone is financially backing them and has put a lot of money into the deal. I suspected that they just shut down to obtain the proper licensing and permits. I'm sure their investors will want some return on that investment. So, they will probably be back.
I never herd of any back doors, I would be interested in that if you got a link. I do know their security was almost non-existent, they didn't even use SSL. That's just something a no body like me noticed. All information is sent as plain text, tap into it it's perfectly readable.

Supposedly Avi programmed the entire thing himself. they are renting hosting, they could be paying less than 100 a year. It doesn't do much calculating besides any search functions from what I can see, just displays information, they wouldn't need some mega host, very cheap. I don't know how much they spent on snakes or advertising. There no reason to assume tens of thousands of dollars.... that's pretty outrageous claim I have to say. Assuming he programmed it himself, it could be easily be funded by them. I see no reason to assume investors.