My first experience resulted from myself watching a youtube video on how to make basic pick tools out of paper clips. I decided that I may as well give it a shot, and was surprised when it actually worked. However, on a later attempted part of the paper clip broke off and rendered the lock unusable. I wanted to continue exploring lockpicking, so I used some of my birthday money to pick up the beginner’s set from TOOOL. Yesterday, I started really learning to pick locks; it is frightening how easy it is to pick those common Master locks.

Working on my Linux Mint terminal configuration.

Terminator with Lynx (web browser), ttyload (system load viewer), Ranger (file browser), irssi (IRC), archey (nifty OS graphic + info thing), ncmpcpp (music player, shown in clock mode here), and logged into my SDF shell.

After running Ubuntu for about 3 months, I have switched over the Linux Mint. Mint is very similar to Ubuntu, except it works and doesn’t have Unity. Ubuntu had been giving me quite a few issues, none of which are taking place in my Mint install.

So, I have Mint set up with Cinnamon. I’ve been messing with appearance, and am using the Clove-Black Cinnamon theme, Carbon window theme, and conky. Currently my conky script is a minimal one picked off the internet, but I’ll be modifying it aesthetically and according to my needs. I feel that, like a jedi, one’s Conky script must be of their own creation that reflects the owner. [Thinking of having mine use small text and icons that go across the top, instead of a big sidebar. I like minimalism]

With Ubuntu, I had been using tor and i2p a lot, but I may have a VM dedicated to secure comm, like the Liberte distro or something.

The Stanford cryptography class starts today, so I am excited:

https://www.coursera.org/crypto/auth/welcome

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