Recruitment Profile: Devin Kaur
TANKTHINK LEAKS_005
The following set of documents comprises the fifth set from the TankThink data leak. It is the last of five detailing the candidates.
DEVIN KAUR INTERVIEW LOG #1
DATE: December 13, 2024
INTERVIEWER: [REDACTED]
LOCATION: D
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
[RECORDING START]
[KAUR floats in a sensory deprivation tank. INTERVIEWER speaks through a headset from an adjacent room.]
INTERVIEWER: Can you hear me, Mr. Kaur?
DEVIN: [voice echoing in tank] Yeah. Where am I?
INTERVIEWER: In a sensory deprivation chamber.
DEVIN: No shit. Is this real?
INTERVIEWER: What do you mean?
DEVIN: The whole thing, TankThink, Joel, you, the tank, me getting shot. What's going on?
INTERVIEWER: A real job interview is what’s going on. It’s all real. Just unusual.
DEVIN: [laughs] Armed guys in orange jumpsuits. I am pretty sure I got stabbed fighting the guy trying to shoot me. But I do not feel stabbed. What is this, like, a healing tank?
INTERVIEWER: [pauses] It’s just a sensory deprivation chamber. It’s meant to relax you. Your health is terrible. First, let's discuss your termination from the University of Chicago.
DEVIN: [sighs] You assholes did it! Why are you asking me about this?
INTERVIEWER: Nakamura was the one who originated this operation. I read his proposal, his briefs, and his recordings. Not his mind, nor yours. You were fired for misusing university compute resources. What were you using those resources for?
DEVIN: [hesitates] Who are you?
INTERVIEWER: You used them for Gradisca, your deepfake pornography operation?
DEVIN: Yes, it upped my margins a lot, and it was already extremely successful. Something like 15 million. Locked up in a cold wallet.
INTERVIEWER: I hope this isn’t inappropriate, but it’s relevant for the interview. Are you a consumer of this product yourself? We’d prefer not to hire any sort of addict.
DEVIN: I don’t really have a lot of sex drive. Like, I don’t masturbate anymore.
INTERVIEW: You’re now anhedonic, sexually?
DEVIN: Kinda, yeah. But I just liked the problem, honestly, of swapping faces and voices. It’s intuitive in your mind, and mindbogglingly hard on a computer. And I liked dominating a shallow pool of talent. I do have to research deepfakes obviously—things like customizing the body, removing tattoos, fixing proportions, more than the face.
INTERVIEW: Why take the risk of using the University’s compute?
DEVIN: They weren’t going to find out, it was that dick Nakamura.
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UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IT SECURITY INCIDENT REPORT - ID#CS2024-117
REPORT DATE: December 5, 2024
SUBJECT: Termination of Computing Privileges - Devin Kaur
SUBMITTED BY: Calvin Wu, Chief Information Security Officer
INCIDENT SUMMARY: On November 30, 2024, our department received an external notification regarding potentially unauthorized usage of university computing resources. The tip included specific technical details suggesting a user was bypassing our standard monitoring systems.
Investigation confirmed that Dr. Devin Kaur, postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science, had implemented sophisticated load balancing techniques to distribute computing tasks across multiple research clusters, effectively concealing total resource utilization from our automated monitoring systems.
FINDINGS:
Subject utilized approximately 87,000 GPU hours over the past 11 months
Resource usage primarily occurred during off-peak hours (11 PM - 6 AM)
Custom scripts identified that routed tasks through multiple nodes
Network traffic analysis revealed connections to Tor network endpoints
Evidence of image processing operations inconsistent with declared research
ACTION TAKEN:
Immediate termination of all computing privileges effective December 5, 2024
Notification to department chair and Dean of Physical Sciences
Referral to Human Resources for employment action
RECOMMENDATION: Given the sophisticated nature of the circumvention, we recommend termination of subject's research position and permanent revocation of all university computing privileges.
DEVIN KAUR INTERVIEW LOG #2
DATE: December 13, 2024
INTERVIEWER: [REDACTED]
LOCATION: D
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
INTERVIEWER: What was your impression of your initial contact with TankThink?
DEVIN: [laughs] I really didn’t get it. A lot of cloak and dagger shit—I had to decode a message, find the coordinates, get this backpack in a dead drop by a big statue, and then you had your phone and laptop in there, I puttered around with the hardware… I was really really pissed off.
INTERVIEWER: Did this motivate you to try harder during the challenges?
DEVIN: I don’t really care about politics or defense all that much. If I wasn’t a racist I wouldn’t have known about the AfD at all. I just found out about the SPD today. Germany is cooked!
INTERVIEWER: I am curious—what did you learn about TankThink prior to the interview? I can’t say I’ve tried to research the company myself.
DEVIN: Well… you guys did the FTX thing, right? Don’t know how, though I think you did the body swap thing on that Priya Sharma with Sharon.
INTERVIEWER: Very insightful. You made the link… how?
DEVIN: I’m not a schizo or whatever, I saw Max Bloom’s thing on Cruzzbunch. I mean I lost a bundle in FTX. I’m an interested party.
CRUZZBUNCH ARTICLE: "GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: HOW YOUR CRYPTO WAS REALLY STOLEN"
AUTHOR: Max Bloom
DATE: March 7, 2023 [ARCHIVED]
[EXCERPT]
Meet Priya Sharma, FTX's former Chief Risk Officer. Harvard-educated. Reputation for conservative risk management. The only executive who consistently challenged SBF's most aggressive strategies—until July 2021.
In the span of a single weekend, Sharma transformed from the exchange's risk-management hardliner into its most dangerous vulnerability.
I compared her pre-July and post-July public appearances. Micro-expressions, speech patterns, eye movements, specific phrases—all showed subtle but measurable differences. It was the same face, same voice, but somehow... different.
Former colleagues described the change as "whiplash-inducing." One senior developer told me: "It was like someone downloaded a different personality into her overnight. Monday morning, she walks in and suddenly she's approving everything she spent years fighting against. She’s talking about “unlocking latent human capital” by suddenly approving these insane trades.”
Sharma disappeared the day before FTX collapsed. When federal investigators found her three weeks later, she claimed to have no memory of approving key decisions that doomed the exchange.
No memory. Remember that detail. It matters.
Recent patents from MindMelt describe suggestive programming protocols using compounds that can create "selective memory suppression and personality trait modification." AvocadoFreedom's experiments with "guided dissociative states" demonstrated the ability to make subjects perform complex tasks against their established ethics—and later remember nothing.
My theory: Sharma was abducted during her "personal emergency" on July 10-11, 2021. For 24 hours, she was subjected to advanced pharmaceutical and psychological reprogramming—not full "consciousness replacement" like in the movies, but a sophisticated form of directed hypnotic programming combined with memory manipulation. Kind of like Metal Gear Solid 4.
DEVIN KAUR INTERVIEW LOG #3
DATE: December 13, 2024
INTERVIEWER: [REDACTED]
LOCATION: D
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
INTERVIEWER: How did you link it to TankThink?
DEVIN: I reverse image searched the logo on the phone. Priya had the same phone, in a video thumbnail. I looked up more about Priya—I had saved Max’s article to my schizo zettelkasten.
INTERVIEWER: Interesting observation. Yet you still showed up at Pick Hall.
DEVIN: Well I’d have made a bundle if I’d been working for you.
INTERVIEWER: That is so.
DEVIN: [longer pause] How are the others? Did they all make it here too?
INTERVIEWER: Yes. You were the only one who sustained serious injuries.
DEVIN: And Jacky won, didn't she?
INTERVIEWER: I don’t know. Joel makes his decisions after this round.
DEVIN: Wait wait hold on. The last thing I remember is getting stabbed by this giant guy. [increasingly agitated] My skin feels wrong.
INTERVIEWER: It’s the magnesium solution in the tank, it causes your skin to feel strange after a while.
[END RECORDING]