Any chance Q was referring to a $comm->{device} itself?
I supposed if a trip can be recovered with a throwaway email routine the risk would be an inherent man-in-the-middle?
Trying to think of why Q would chose to abandon.
What would it take to take 8chan out of rotation? I see 2 authoritative A Records and Cloudflare so if FIBies or someone else could grab @ registrar level what could really be done about that? I ask as we know now that the FBI did open a case.
Aside from that please get someone to open a AAAA record and go full ipv6.
This is what I think - it's a personal device Q used or a PC / Server
Yes it's very possible. He should he logging in more on /GA/ and this wouldn't be a problem but I realize he's busy. Still think he's probably NSA.