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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Some things just shouldn't be connected to the internet.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~~Some~~ MOST things just shouldn’t be connected to the internet.

FTFY

[–] Downcount 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Some~~ ~~MOST~~ things just should~~n’t~~ be connected to the internet.

IFTTT

[–] Plopp 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~Some~~ ~~MOST~~ things just shouldn’t be ~~connected~~ ~~to~~ ~~the~~ ~~internet.~~

[–] TheYear2525 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Checks out. All suffering is caused by being.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

~~Some~~ ~~MOST~~ things ~~just~~ ~~shouldn’t~~ ~~be~~ ~~connected~~ ~~to~~ ~~the~~ ~~internet.~~

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Apparently I'm one of those things. Jesus, what an article

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately connecting this kink to the internet facilitates doing it. Having the device itself connect for ease of use had caused an unbelievable amount of tech issues, though. To be fair the programmer is a dipshit, though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that just makes connecting those things to the internet forbidden... and therefore alluring.

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[–] ExplosiveLynx 126 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat 10 points 1 year ago

So is the headline. Chastity cage, exposed. 🤣

[–] TheBlue22 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Example #4363 why making everything "smart" is a terrible fucking idea

[–] NightAuthor 8 points 1 year ago

Not inherently, they coulda followed best practices. But this is definitely a reason not to buy smart things.

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[–] nxfsi 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine having your smart cock cage locked out by Amazon because some rando told them you are racist lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

We live in the weirdest timeline

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this just facilitating their humiliation kink? I think it's more of a service.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be non-consensual.

[–] Cabrio 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The researcher, who asked to remain anonymous because he wanted to separate his professional life from the kink-related work he does, said he gained access to a database containing records of more than 10,000 users,

10,000 users‽

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 year ago

Rule 34 extends to action as well as observance.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, not the worst possible issue with a smart chastity cage that I could think of.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is when I lock your shit remotely and then change the password

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TFW chinese hackers hold your dick for ransom until you send them crypto

[–] Agent641 5 points 1 year ago

At least someone other than me is holding my dick.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your cock is mine now

I'm dying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That probably worked for most of the clientele.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

This exact scenario has appeared in an entirely unsurprising number of chastity stories.

[–] BastianAI 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And to think I don't even feel safe about buying something as innocent as a smart TV...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The researcher, who asked to remain anonymous because he wanted to separate his professional life from the kink-related work he does, said he gained access to a database containing records of more than 10,000 users, thanks to two vulnerabilities.

He also reached out to the company on June 17 alerting them of the issues in an attempt to get them to fix the vulnerabilities and protect their users’ data, according to a screenshot of the email he sent and shared with TechCrunch.

[REDACTED] has left the site wide open, allowing any script kiddie to grab any and all customer information.

“Your cock is mine now,” the hacker told one of the victims, according to a researcher who discovered the hacking campaign at the time.

In 2016, researchers found a bug in a Bluetooth-powered “panty buster,” which allowed anyone to control the sex toy remotely over the internet.

In 2017, a smart sex toy maker agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two women who alleged the company spied on them by collecting and recording “highly intimate and sensitive data” of its users.


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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, no, no, no. No. Surely the hacker knows the victim probably did not see that comment as a threat 😭

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sign up for the cage, get a bonus dom!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

The chastity belt may be smart, but the maker never claimed to be so.

[–] dion_starfire 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this is the same one I remember from a couple years back, what's not listed in this article: two different security teams warned them of the vulnerabilities multiple times, the vendor claimed to have fixed the issue when they hadn't, the devices didn't have any sort of physical bypass in case of malfunction, and what finally convinced the pen testers to go public was the company announcing that they planned to make a locking inflatable butt plug using the same platform.

[–] Chunk 12 points 1 year ago

At some point the security vulnerabilities are a feature, not a bug. Butt plug ransomware is the latest sex toy fad.

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[–] JackFrostNCola 17 points 1 year ago

I feel like like the potential for being exposed as a chastity cage user might actually be a plus for some users

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

God i hope the users used a email alias and fake names

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