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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 08 2017, @10:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the insert-witty-something-here dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

At this point we've pretty well documented how the "internet of things" is a privacy and security dumpster fire. Whether it's tea kettles that expose your WiFi credentials or smart fridges that leak your Gmail password, companies were so busy trying to make a buck by embedding network chipsets into everything, they couldn't be bothered to adhere to even the most modest security and privacy guidelines. As a result, billions upon billions of devices are now being connected to the internet with little to no meaningful security and a total disregard to user privacy -- posing a potentially fatal threat to us all.

Unsurprisingly, the sex toy division of the internet of broken things is no exception to this rule. One "smart dildo" manufacturer was recently forced to shell out $3.75 million after it was caught collecting, err, "usage habits" of the company's customers. According to the lawsuit, Standard Innovation's We-Vibe vibrator collected sensitive data about customer usage, including "selected vibration settings," the device's battery life, and even the vibrator's "temperature." At no point did the company apparently think it was a good idea to clearly inform users of this data collection.

Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171003/13375238336/sex-toys-are-just-as-poorly-secured-as-rest-internet-broken-things.shtml


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 08 2017, @02:59PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 08 2017, @02:59PM (#578887) Homepage Journal

    Wouldn't that be recursion? A buttplug wearing a buttplug?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Sunday October 08 2017, @03:45PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday October 08 2017, @03:45PM (#578896) Journal

    Hillary wipes hers with a cloth!
    XD

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday October 08 2017, @05:55PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday October 08 2017, @05:55PM (#578916)

    Stop insulting buttplugs by equating them to politicians, you insensitive clod!

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @07:12PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @07:12PM (#578936)

      Stop insulting buttplugs by equating them to politicians, you insensitive clod!

      Yeah! Buttplugs have the common decency to hold shit back, rather than spewing it around at every conceivable opportunity!

      • (Score: 2) by rylyeh on Monday October 09 2017, @03:59AM

        by rylyeh (6726) <{kadath} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday October 09 2017, @03:59AM (#579111)

        The best Buttplugs are Trans-Parent, of course. - Get it? Trans-Parent! HAHAHA!

        Ya, I'd better stop there...

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