It does seem they worded about the miner to avoid people from knowing its the miner they were running.
The Epic Scale software is actually supposed to do a lot more than simply mining Litecoin. From what I've read, it's mostly just a cryptocurrency miner at this stage but there are plans to expand the range of applications further beginning with genomic computations. According to their
official site, the following gives a general idea of what the software will do once the software is fully developed:
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