Just because you personally did not receive a direct reply, does not make your concerns 100% valid. David Stanfill is GPUHoarder. That's been confirmed by him multiple times. He is a co-founder of Squirrels, LLC. He has publicly stated many times that Squirrelsresearch.com is endorsed and a sister company to Squirrels. This was all public knowledge for quite a while now. So the press release is nice, but this wasn't rocket science.
We already had one FPGA scam (Dwarf) recently and I'm sure there will be others. There is no harm in establishing the identity in more than one way. I've seen David's name mentioned but I don't recall any actual proof and I do follow these FPGA threads. So Phil's concern was 100% valid and now we have something to refer to if this question comes up again.
Look Last time I found a big issue it was GAW miners I exposed the flaw in their nicehash/westhash miners. It was the first real chink in their armor and I received multiple emails and pms from them that I considered thinly veiled threats.
We have had multiple scammers this year. right on this site. I should have been more clear what was bugging me and a as soon as explained what I found wrong they jumped on it and did do a proper press release . This is a real indicator that they are legit. It also means they will be one of the very few USA based mining builders. I like this and I look forward to playing with this gear.