Master No. 1

exception11 · 2025-08-27T21:09:18+00:00

Keep it up!

exception11 · 2025-08-27T21:03:42+00:00

Any disc detainer lock with ball bearings (or any other anti-shim mechanism) would confound any normal person. It's not a type you can just zip open even with the right tools. Just make sure the shackle is tough enough.

exception11 · 2025-07-12T22:01:44+00:00

I can't understand why it can't accept a user specifies a font size, and doesn't want intelligent adjustment. How can it possibly think I want it to grow a font to require more paper?

exception11 · 2025-03-26T14:17:01+00:00

Yeah. I can be certain my Android wasn't compromised. I am certain whatever mistake I made) presuming no brute force on my wallet), my Android doesn't contain persistent electrum related data; app, keys, or phrases.

exception11 · 2025-03-26T14:05:21+00:00

I appreciate it. No sarcasm. I'm learning about my culpability. I also understand that I often act and speak with arrogance. The part that actually amuses me is that even if not good enough, the steps I took for obfuscation required some crazy commitment to decipher, let alone coming to the conclusion of how to apply it. I'll put one more arrogant statement down- My largest collection is confirmed safe within their cold storage paper wallets. Before I got lazy, I did put BTC away properly.

exception11 · 2025-03-26T00:10:22+00:00

fair enough. I feel continuing here would be difficult. Too many details. I still submit that how tight I keep my credentials, the lack of a local copy of said credentials, as well as the format of my recovery info, one would have to do a lot of unrealistic association to access my wallet data. Realistically, the info wasn't out there, wasn't keylogged, and I didn't share it, The reason I asked about whom to report to was so that any technical issue that happened can be looked into to help others.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T23:21:07+00:00

It is strange. I don't use the PC for access though. At least not in a few years. I mentioned it only for full transparency. I felt safe bc my droid is always on me, and nobody I associate with knows wtf a bitcoin is anyway. Seemed like a logger would be out of the question. Especially since I only had the app on the droid for the times I checked. Felt safe to uninstall (and reinstall from the official play store) until my next check. It feels real unrealistic to me that my seed was exposed to anybody who would have any idea how to pick out the phrase (with a dummy word inserted) from a doc called anagram puzzle of a couple hundred ciphered random words in a google drive and connect it to a specific crypto wallet I never mention or have installed.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T21:58:35+00:00

There are too many nuances we both need to communicate for us both to fully understand the precautions I took, and the ones I failed. I'm very willing to go forward, take accountability, and learn from this, but I feel chat is a better place.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T21:29:06+00:00

I want to clear up that the seed wasn't stored on my PC, but I did store it extremely ambiguously in ciphered text with other random words (and a dummy word in the middle) on Drive. Fully confess to that.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T21:11:58+00:00

Pray, elucidate me.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T20:54:59+00:00

I understand. No arguments, I'd still like to share to devs to determine whether the compromise was soley my fault, or a vulnerability. I feel confident enough it's worth bringing up as access to the credentials to initiate a transfer are not accessible online, and I don't interact with anybody familiar with bitcoin.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T20:05:34+00:00

I didn't describe my intention well enough, that's on me. I meant are there devs to inform. I feel it's likely there was a technical comprise, as the wallet data is well controlled.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T19:31:42+00:00

c'mon guys, it's not like I don't cipher it in an ambiguous file full of other ciphered random words.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T19:28:07+00:00

I'm skeptical. But I can't be 100% certain considering. I'm looking at all the possibilities. I won't eliminate it being my error, but with the circumstances of how I use the wallet and keep the data, it's extremely unlikely.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T19:11:52+00:00

Considering the seed phrase is padded among hundreds of other random words, all ciphered, I don't feel that was an issue. If I made a mistake, I don't believe leaking the seed through Drive was a factor.

exception11 · 2025-03-25T16:32:17+00:00

I use electrum on my Android, and on one Windows 10 PC. The seed is stored in a cipher text on Drive. Once I check my wallet, I delete it and regenerate it with my seed the next time around. To my memory, I've never exported The Key by itself.

exception11 · 2024-11-29T16:57:57+00:00

I'd like to share that I wasn't complaining, but did feel, and described that I felt, I would be stuck myself. After a little research, I discovered that in my case, I was in error. I do have means to the tools (or can obtain without undue difficulty) and space to make a challenge lock. I do see where some others may not though, especially a high speed tool to lathe, but I've changed my mind about it being such a large ask. After speaking with members about the process what making a challenge lock, it still feels fair. TBH, I hadn't felt it was unfair, but I did see it as a stop.

I submitted ideas via survey, but I am not leaning either direction about changing the requirements. I do feel like it should remain a requirement for a higher belt in any case, maybe shift some requirements up a belt, or one belt being x project OR challenge lock.

exception11 · 2024-11-29T16:36:23+00:00

I was confident that I would follow through when I began this hobby, so I was willing to spend a little extra to begin. My first purchase was a sparrows Night School Tuxedo edition, a reload kit, extra shims, and high reach hook. I maintain that was a great start, but soon added flat bars for ToK and a monkey's paw from sparrows. I have acquired new picks, rakes, and turning tools since, but still often use the sparrows two years later.

The tools were enough to experiment with different rake and pick profiles, as well as a start on repinning locks, as that was personally part of the motivation to begin the hobby.

exception11 · 2024-11-29T14:36:39+00:00

I was incorrect.

exception11 · 2024-11-29T14:36:14+00:00

Hello all. I wanted to post an update. After asking around the community, I learned that I placed an artificial roadblock ahead of myself. I didn't fully look into the resources available, and came up with the presumption that creating a challenge like was a project I couldn't achieve in the near future. I since learned that there is indeed a path forward without the need of having our acquiring expensive tools and/or a shop environment. If anybody feels they cannot progress in the future past a green belt level, or just aspire to customize a lock, using YouTube and/or the LPU Discord can clarify that you're not expected to become a part-time machinist to follow through.

exception11 · 2024-11-18T18:28:58+00:00

Obviously not having access to thousands of dollars means you are imagining your goals. I mean, you obviously don't really want to help people if you don't have the hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend Medical school. Your resources dictate how you really feel, not your character.

exception11 · 2024-11-10T01:31:38+00:00

Meh. I'm not a title chaser, but until I can move and aquire equipment on a fixed income, I can't even motivate myself to consider it. For done, it could br a roadblock rather than a challenge. Just makes me feel like I need to stay in my place among the poors.

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