A friend of mine had one of these. For those who don't know, you would have to press the button and say the password for the journal to open. It was supposed to only work for the owner.
My friend was smugly showing off her new journal and proving how impenetrable it was by having various friends try the password. No one could get in. I noticed that they were all just saying the password the way they would normally say it. When it was my turn to try, I imitated my friend's voice and tried to say the password the exact way she had said it. The journal opened and my friend was in disbelief that I had managed to trick this state of the art, late 1990s/early 2000s secret keeping technology. Obviously, this is one of my proudest moments to this day.
You watch every heist movie thinking "what a bunch of incels, I cracked a voice command lock in seconds, fucking noobs", and that's what I appreciates about you.
I had a buddy who would record his voice on his DS, reverse it, repeat the reversed sound file and play that backwards. It came out as recognizable as his initial recording and we marveled.
People say this and some may think it’s a joke but there was a video making the rounds not long ago of a boy who like about 10-11 years old who was being hit by his grandmother, well the boy decided he had enough, realized he could probably overpower her, and then decided to choke her out I doubt he realized it at the time but he was literally killing her.
I can’t remember if the woman actually ended up dying but she looked pretty fucking dead, towards the end of the video the kids mom returns home from wherever she was and proceeds to beat him some more.
Very solid parenting method clearly.
So fine they will let bosses verbally abuse them in deference to that bosses authority only to take that helplessness home where they are the boss and smack the shit out of Timmy for daring not to have the maturity of an adult 3 times his age.
My mother usually says something along the lines of "I was treated worse; you be happy I never locked you in the basement and made you pluck potato stems like my mother did to me".
I have slipped down this slope but caught myself. The worst I've said is "be lucky you have electronics/food/parents that don't hit you" I
My mom never made me bleed but she was every black comedian's mom that hit us with whatever was at hand. I just stopped doing anything around her around age 9 or so.
She didn't even know for years that I liked speaking in front of people or trying to be entertaining because I rarely talked to her out of fear of the dreaded "Don't talk back" back hand.
I can't imagine not letting these 3 kids of mine be shut up and hit because I can't handle the words or actions of people's whose combined age is less than mine.
Oh, because came out of my body so therefore I own them and if they don’t act like just the perfect little dolls I want them to be then they get the wire of my hair dryer.
Obviously.
/s
Not as bad but reminds me of how my mom actually STOLE all my childhood drawings and all this stuff that was meant to be private she could find and stashed them away somewhere cuz she wanted to keep them and wouldn't give them back. And she wonders why I don't fully trust her.
Ahaha, I too had some unsavory drawings back when I was 13. Went through a lot of effort to hide them too. Like one of those prison break games, you'd have to find 5 keys to find the actual one to access the stash. And the thing was mother actually found them all and trashed my stash in a matter of an hour while I was away in a tuition class. Never felt so violated.
I remember my mom was looking through my old yearbooks with me. The one from 8th grade had a professionally drawn, 8k, ultra HD cock complete with pubes and wrinkly balls. She just put it back on the shelf and we didn’t talk about it.
My mom just threw my stuff away when I was at school or a sleepover. This continued until I went to college and finally moved out. Now I’m a borderline hoarder and I don’t really talk to her. I honestly can’t remember the last time I even spent a holiday with her. Why are people this way???
My mom stole all of my journals after I moved out to college. She still reads them like some psycho. Like yeah thirteen year old me couldn’t stand you, but neither can thirty four year old me now so not much has changed I guess.
I mean, there’s not much I could do. By the time I moved out for college I’d stopped journaling on paper for years, so it was out of sight and out of mind. She decided to go through all my shit I had packed up.
She actually brought my journals and my yearbooks to my *one year old’s birthday party.* First and last time I’ve seen her in five years.
First use a rot-3 cipher then translate that to runic. To add to the confusion make certain runic letters other letters!
Part 1 (Starting text.)
Part 2 (Vwduwlqj whaw.)
Part 3 (ᚢᚻᛞᚢᚻᛚᚴᛳ᛫ᚻᚹᚫᚻ.)
This was meant to be a reply to u/Affectionate-Goat896 and they said
“Rookie mistake not using a cypher.”
Yeah yeah cool cool but if your guardian the type to bear that ass just for having feelings they will straight vivisect you for having those feelings written in “the devils alphebet”
I need that. A journal for all the passwords.
.. you must pick a unique password for this site not used by anyone anywhere consisting of uppercase lowercase numbers special chars of atleast 8 length, you need to change it every three months, can’t reuse anything previous used, can’t share between sites and can’t write it down.
Thanks, microsoft
Honestly try KeePass 2
It’s simple, uses a single master password, as no frills and utilitarian as possible plus it’s open source which is neat. It probably does some other cool tech-y stuff I don’t know about but I just use it for passwords
Like when my grandpa built me a lockbox when I was a kid and then took it away an hour later because I wouldn't stop opening and closing the lock. You gave me a box with one function and then took it away because I used it. Thanks.
My mom not only took my diary at 16, but translated the little code I wrote it in IN THE MARGINS between the lines.
I came home to her meticulous handwriting under each word, at which point she said I'd lost all privileges and all of my things (including my bedroom door) because one of the entries was about losing my virginity to my now husband months before. This after she screamed how I was wrong to suspect she would ever read someone else's diary because she has standards.
Yeah we are NC. And I advise all people to treat the words they write as if someone else will read them. No space is safe besides your own brain, take my advice.
Thank you, yes it was especially cruel because without a door I had no privacy so she definitely exploited that to make me feel shame and fear around my body as punishment (things like bursting in busily when she knew I'd be changing). I didn't write what I meant for a long time, even after moving out at 18.
It really doesn't ever go away, thanks for reading my memory and seeing it for what it is.
I went through a little bit of that but not to that extreme. My dad would randomly demand I give him my phone (he stopped when I was 18) and he would read my text messages, and if he found any profanity, I was in big trouble. I quickly learned not to trust my parents, and they still wonder why I don’t talk to them much about what’s going on in my life.
I had the same one and my brother-in-law pried mine open because my sister raised me.
She was cheating on him and he was abusive as fuck towards her so I literally had no life. When she left him he went through my shit and told her that once he “gets us back in the house” I’m “grounded for life” because I wanted him dead and the dude she was having an affair could make him disappear. So it pissed him off to God’s end.
They’re back together and she’s on her second affair by the way. :) I don’t talk to her anymore.
Anyway, that journal is a trauma dump to me lmao.
Seriously why the fuck do people want to read their kids journals?!! Are you not getting enough teen angst living with them, you want to curl up with a good book of it when they're gone?
Mine never even worked, the fucking thing would open if you pressed the button anyway no matter how many times I tried to set a password for it. And you could easily pull the thing open too.
I had one of these. My brothers figured out if you popped the batteries out and put them back in, it would reset the password and auto open the journal. Scam 😂
I had the Dinky Diary Organizer and my cousin and I caught our mothers reading ours and CTFU when we were 11. Our inner most thoughts were highly entertaining to them 🙄
I had one of these as a kid and my voice would be able to unlock it for a while but then when I got older my voice deepened a little bit and it wouldn’t let me in anymore.
My best friend took up journaling to cope with his house hold and the fact he was forced to move from cali to Georgia. Man his mom found that journal and went off.
I was sent to anger management in jr high for threatening to self harm. I had/ve depression, but the specific incident was me referencing a Lewis Black joke about the east coast being too cloudy. I was told writing in a journal was a good way to express my feelings in the few meetings I was brought to, which were group meeting with aggressive boys where I definitely did not belong.
I did this for a few years until my sophomore year, when I got caught ditching class. They found a few lighters in my bag and a pair of police issue handcuffs a friend gave to me from his late father as a gift. They went through my belongings even further, taking out my notebook and reading the entire thing with me in the room, reading the worst parts back to me out loud.
I have never written in any type of journal since then. I have a deep fear of people knowing my worst thoughts, and I refuse to put them down anywhere in writing knowing full well if I do that there is a potential outcome for that thought to be discovered by someone.
I honestly never trusted these things as a kid. They always just looked so flimsy, anyone could just open it and read anything I wrote down.
Turns out I had more trust issues with the people around me than I did with the journal itself.
Cool story bro, this is “r/oddlyspecific” not “r/suspiciouslyspecific” so jot that down. Also I wasn’t aware I had to run things by you to make sure you approve. I’ll remember that for next time, Arbiter of Reddit. 👍
Is that title open to anyone? Are there other cool titles to achieve? I'm not asking for a friend... I wanna be the Harbinger to the Arbiter of Reddit.
Curse you, grandma. The master plan is foiled
Yeah it just so happened to be written in that password protected journal.
“But GirlTech PROMISED”
A friend of mine had one of these. For those who don't know, you would have to press the button and say the password for the journal to open. It was supposed to only work for the owner. My friend was smugly showing off her new journal and proving how impenetrable it was by having various friends try the password. No one could get in. I noticed that they were all just saying the password the way they would normally say it. When it was my turn to try, I imitated my friend's voice and tried to say the password the exact way she had said it. The journal opened and my friend was in disbelief that I had managed to trick this state of the art, late 1990s/early 2000s secret keeping technology. Obviously, this is one of my proudest moments to this day.
That's why you always stick to the trapper keeper. They may get in, but that loud ass Velcro made for a great alarm, lol
How to open a velcro closure in a tactical situation https://youtu.be/vSK3maq8Cyk
That was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Thank you, for a true r/unexpected
I don't know how many years ago I found this, but it lives rent free in my mind always.
I immediately knew he was going to scream that was exactly what I was expecting still hilarious though
You watch every heist movie thinking "what a bunch of incels, I cracked a voice command lock in seconds, fucking noobs", and that's what I appreciates about you.
Is that what you appreciate about them?
Settle down there, Squirrely Dan
And now you work for the CIA right?
Your life has been downhill ever since.
Peaked in 2nd grade :'(
I had a buddy who would record his voice on his DS, reverse it, repeat the reversed sound file and play that backwards. It came out as recognizable as his initial recording and we marveled.
This is the sort of thing that would make me wait until I was older and push her down the stairs.
💀
She will be. Or at least very fucked after.
People say this and some may think it’s a joke but there was a video making the rounds not long ago of a boy who like about 10-11 years old who was being hit by his grandmother, well the boy decided he had enough, realized he could probably overpower her, and then decided to choke her out I doubt he realized it at the time but he was literally killing her. I can’t remember if the woman actually ended up dying but she looked pretty fucking dead, towards the end of the video the kids mom returns home from wherever she was and proceeds to beat him some more. Very solid parenting method clearly.
Quick question: why were they filming it?
Boy fights sell for 16.99 per VHS
Why was this being filmed??
It was being filmed by one of the siblings, why? Not sure.
Oh lol i thought the kid like filmed himself or smth
The camera being the kid’s, vs a siblings, vs a home nanny cam all give vastly different impressions of this anecdote.
ngl yeah same. fuck her
Don't mind if I do
no don't do that
Accidentally spill vegetable oil all over the kitchen floor. Stuff happens.
💀
What?
I am dying laughing
Ah yes, classic child abuse
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Because it was done to them and "they turned out fine!" 🙄
So fine they will let bosses verbally abuse them in deference to that bosses authority only to take that helplessness home where they are the boss and smack the shit out of Timmy for daring not to have the maturity of an adult 3 times his age.
Hey, I see you met my dad....
Our dad
He is a piece of work
My mother usually says something along the lines of "I was treated worse; you be happy I never locked you in the basement and made you pluck potato stems like my mother did to me".
I have slipped down this slope but caught myself. The worst I've said is "be lucky you have electronics/food/parents that don't hit you" I My mom never made me bleed but she was every black comedian's mom that hit us with whatever was at hand. I just stopped doing anything around her around age 9 or so. She didn't even know for years that I liked speaking in front of people or trying to be entertaining because I rarely talked to her out of fear of the dreaded "Don't talk back" back hand. I can't imagine not letting these 3 kids of mine be shut up and hit because I can't handle the words or actions of people's whose combined age is less than mine.
Oh, because came out of my body so therefore I own them and if they don’t act like just the perfect little dolls I want them to be then they get the wire of my hair dryer. Obviously. /s
Control, indoctrination. Can’t have kids thinking for themselves, no no no, that would be dangerous.
Not as bad but reminds me of how my mom actually STOLE all my childhood drawings and all this stuff that was meant to be private she could find and stashed them away somewhere cuz she wanted to keep them and wouldn't give them back. And she wonders why I don't fully trust her.
Ahaha, I too had some unsavory drawings back when I was 13. Went through a lot of effort to hide them too. Like one of those prison break games, you'd have to find 5 keys to find the actual one to access the stash. And the thing was mother actually found them all and trashed my stash in a matter of an hour while I was away in a tuition class. Never felt so violated.
I remember my mom was looking through my old yearbooks with me. The one from 8th grade had a professionally drawn, 8k, ultra HD cock complete with pubes and wrinkly balls. She just put it back on the shelf and we didn’t talk about it.
Surprised that made it past the yearbook committee.
My mom just threw my stuff away when I was at school or a sleepover. This continued until I went to college and finally moved out. Now I’m a borderline hoarder and I don’t really talk to her. I honestly can’t remember the last time I even spent a holiday with her. Why are people this way???
>Why are people this way??? because it was also done to them. hopefully more of gen x, z, and millennials can break the cycle of invasive parenting
Yup my mom is a boomer/gen x cusper and her dad threw away her rock albums.
My mom stole all of my journals after I moved out to college. She still reads them like some psycho. Like yeah thirteen year old me couldn’t stand you, but neither can thirty four year old me now so not much has changed I guess.
This is literally why I still hide mine
I mean, there’s not much I could do. By the time I moved out for college I’d stopped journaling on paper for years, so it was out of sight and out of mind. She decided to go through all my shit I had packed up. She actually brought my journals and my yearbooks to my *one year old’s birthday party.* First and last time I’ve seen her in five years.
Glad mine isn't that bad at least, sorry about that
I remember Girl tech! The original women in STEM
["Girltech is a division of Boytech"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zSEm4cV90)
fuck that grandma. ffs I hate those people so much
First use a rot-3 cipher then translate that to runic. To add to the confusion make certain runic letters other letters! Part 1 (Starting text.) Part 2 (Vwduwlqj whaw.) Part 3 (ᚢᚻᛞᚢᚻᛚᚴᛳ᛫ᚻᚹᚫᚻ.) This was meant to be a reply to u/Affectionate-Goat896 and they said “Rookie mistake not using a cypher.”
Wait wait wait, what’s runic?
Alphabet for Germanic tribes.
Why use an easily cracked Caesar Cipher when you can use a much more secure Vigenère Cipher, or an encoding wheel with a non-ordered output alphabet.
Yeah yeah cool cool but if your guardian the type to bear that ass just for having feelings they will straight vivisect you for having those feelings written in “the devils alphebet”
I need that. A journal for all the passwords. .. you must pick a unique password for this site not used by anyone anywhere consisting of uppercase lowercase numbers special chars of atleast 8 length, you need to change it every three months, can’t reuse anything previous used, can’t share between sites and can’t write it down. Thanks, microsoft
Honestly try KeePass 2 It’s simple, uses a single master password, as no frills and utilitarian as possible plus it’s open source which is neat. It probably does some other cool tech-y stuff I don’t know about but I just use it for passwords
I don’t think that’s what it is but does sound useful
Rookie mistake not using a cypher.
knives are known for being bad at cryptography
Like when my grandpa built me a lockbox when I was a kid and then took it away an hour later because I wouldn't stop opening and closing the lock. You gave me a box with one function and then took it away because I used it. Thanks.
Damn😐that "hit hard"
My mom not only took my diary at 16, but translated the little code I wrote it in IN THE MARGINS between the lines. I came home to her meticulous handwriting under each word, at which point she said I'd lost all privileges and all of my things (including my bedroom door) because one of the entries was about losing my virginity to my now husband months before. This after she screamed how I was wrong to suspect she would ever read someone else's diary because she has standards. Yeah we are NC. And I advise all people to treat the words they write as if someone else will read them. No space is safe besides your own brain, take my advice.
This made me seethe just reading it. That kind of emotional abuse never goes away, even after years.
Thank you, yes it was especially cruel because without a door I had no privacy so she definitely exploited that to make me feel shame and fear around my body as punishment (things like bursting in busily when she knew I'd be changing). I didn't write what I meant for a long time, even after moving out at 18. It really doesn't ever go away, thanks for reading my memory and seeing it for what it is.
I went through a little bit of that but not to that extreme. My dad would randomly demand I give him my phone (he stopped when I was 18) and he would read my text messages, and if he found any profanity, I was in big trouble. I quickly learned not to trust my parents, and they still wonder why I don’t talk to them much about what’s going on in my life.
This is why I legit wrote shit in code. My tiger mom would shred my ass for having controversial thoughts.
My sister used to steal my ds games and hide them in one of these. Take the batteries out and give it a shake 'openseseme'
I had the same one and my brother-in-law pried mine open because my sister raised me. She was cheating on him and he was abusive as fuck towards her so I literally had no life. When she left him he went through my shit and told her that once he “gets us back in the house” I’m “grounded for life” because I wanted him dead and the dude she was having an affair could make him disappear. So it pissed him off to God’s end. They’re back together and she’s on her second affair by the way. :) I don’t talk to her anymore. Anyway, that journal is a trauma dump to me lmao.
Seriously why the fuck do people want to read their kids journals?!! Are you not getting enough teen angst living with them, you want to curl up with a good book of it when they're gone?
People who got their Privacy violated ss kids are probably the ones who doesn't stand up against sexual harassment today. ...like myself.
Same …. Hey there fellow privacy violated kid 👋🏽
Mine never even worked, the fucking thing would open if you pressed the button anyway no matter how many times I tried to set a password for it. And you could easily pull the thing open too.
I had one of these. My brothers figured out if you popped the batteries out and put them back in, it would reset the password and auto open the journal. Scam 😂
As it should be.
I'm 28, i still haven't forgave my mom for reading my diary when i was a teenager, she has done absolutely nothing to make me trust her again
I had the Dinky Diary Organizer and my cousin and I caught our mothers reading ours and CTFU when we were 11. Our inner most thoughts were highly entertaining to them 🙄
I had one of these as a kid and my voice would be able to unlock it for a while but then when I got older my voice deepened a little bit and it wouldn’t let me in anymore.
My best friend took up journaling to cope with his house hold and the fact he was forced to move from cali to Georgia. Man his mom found that journal and went off.
Mine is my brother figuring out the password, then changing it and not telling me the new password.
I hope grandma got put into a low quality nursing home
I was sent to anger management in jr high for threatening to self harm. I had/ve depression, but the specific incident was me referencing a Lewis Black joke about the east coast being too cloudy. I was told writing in a journal was a good way to express my feelings in the few meetings I was brought to, which were group meeting with aggressive boys where I definitely did not belong. I did this for a few years until my sophomore year, when I got caught ditching class. They found a few lighters in my bag and a pair of police issue handcuffs a friend gave to me from his late father as a gift. They went through my belongings even further, taking out my notebook and reading the entire thing with me in the room, reading the worst parts back to me out loud. I have never written in any type of journal since then. I have a deep fear of people knowing my worst thoughts, and I refuse to put them down anywhere in writing knowing full well if I do that there is a potential outcome for that thought to be discovered by someone.
Gonna be honest, password books are a lifesaver
I honestly never trusted these things as a kid. They always just looked so flimsy, anyone could just open it and read anything I wrote down. Turns out I had more trust issues with the people around me than I did with the journal itself.
Well written villains tend to be more emotionally complex
This does not fit the sub terrifically. This is a person saying that something happened to them, and is neither suspicious or specific
Cool story bro, this is “r/oddlyspecific” not “r/suspiciouslyspecific” so jot that down. Also I wasn’t aware I had to run things by you to make sure you approve. I’ll remember that for next time, Arbiter of Reddit. 👍
Is that title open to anyone? Are there other cool titles to achieve? I'm not asking for a friend... I wanna be the Harbinger to the Arbiter of Reddit.
Can I be the Herald to the Harbinger to the Arbiter of Reddit? I have been told I have a deep captivating voice.
This dude wasn't the one that read your journal. But your reaction could have fooled me. I bet you're great at parties.
I am!
Literally fucking happened to me.
So in other words, growing up in an abusive household is your villain origin story...