by tirankin » 10 Sep 2009 11:18
UTD student here.
The most notorious and successful of the lock-picking clubs was founded in fall, 2005, and continued up until last year, ending (according to public record) in fall 2008. It currently has no online presence, no official pages, and no evident existence as far as the "registered campus organizations" list goes, and its sponsor was not contacted throughout the spring semester of 2009.
I am currently in contact with the sponsor, and I'm trying to contact former members, as well; it seems that the group dissolved because monsieur Farre, the founder, and his fellow freshmen-of-05 friends graduated and left, leaving nobody interested in carrying the banner.
This has changed.
I'm going to restart the lock-picking club. Depending on how long it takes for me to complete my research and establish all the contacts I want on our side, I plan to have everything up and running within the next two weeks. Registration of new student organizations closes October 3rd--plenty of time.
Specific mechanics of the club are still up in the air, but my primary goals are, aside from the tao of hacker, to ensure club longevity and to avoid at all costs the notion that an honorable guild of lockpickers could or would foster illegal activity. We need to be the Good Guys.
Interested? Come on in. Invite your friends. I might decide to limit the club size, but I'm really not sure yet, so for the moment, let's just see how many people we can get. If you know anybody with a machine shop so we can learn how to make our own lockpicks, awesome. (I'm working on that.) If you know any real locksmiths who can take apart locks for us and show us how they work, awesome. (I'm working on that, too.) If you want to join so you can steal or break into someone else's personal things... Leave.
Also: I've never been to the University of Texas at Austin, but the UTDPD rock.
~Tiran Kin
(Skype is my username)
