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from the another-day-another-IoT-problem dept.
Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in:
A security flaw in a hi-tech chastity belt for men made it possible for hackers to remotely lock all the devices in use simultaneously.
The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so owners might have been faced with the prospect of having to use a grinder or bolt cutter to free themselves from its metal clamp.
The sex toy's app has been fixed by its Chinese developer after a team of UK security professionals flagged the bug.
This could be useful to anyone still using the old version of the app who finds themselves locked in as a result of an attacker making use of the revelation.
Any other attempt to cut through the device's plastic body poses a risk of harm.
[...] The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used.
In addition, they said, they could reveal a unique code that had been assigned to each device.
These could be used to make the server ignore app requests to unlock any of the identified chastity toys, they added, leaving wearers locked in.
Also at The Verge and gizmodo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @06:00PM (7 children)
You're so wrong... They've existed for a long time, just like men submitting to women have existed for a long time, even in the days of men generally thinking they were the superior half of God's creation.
In addition, in Victorian "any and all sex is evil unless for procreation within a marriage" times, these things - well, let's say conceptually similar things - were used to control certain "unhealthy tendencies" of teenage boys. I've seen Victorian era ads promoting male chastity belts for that very purpose. Not that difficult to find on the net either. Of course, nowadays such an ad will already be labeled kiddie p0rn by some people.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday October 07 2020, @07:52PM (6 children)
Oh, care to offer a concrete example? There haven't been that many matriarchal societies since history began being recorded (and claims about prehistoric societies are almost always dubious reconstructions from scant evidence), and I can't think of a single one that went so far as to consider men to be property.
Good point about children though, here have been a few Puritan-esque societies that went overboard against anything sexual.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:07PM (5 children)
I was not referring to matriarchal societies, but to individual men in any society.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday October 07 2020, @08:52PM (4 children)
Okay.
That's mostly incompatible with being considered property though, children aside. Property does not have the option of leaving a relationship they're unhappy with. Everything else is either roleplaying or illegal slavery.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 08 2020, @03:48AM (2 children)
Just a couple of words that may or may not cause you to question your position:
Eunuch and catamite.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday October 08 2020, @04:09PM (1 child)
I should have been more specific that I meant men-as-a-class, rather than individual men. Traditionally chastity belts existed to preserve the "purity" of female wards until they were sold/married off, or to ensure faithfulness without trust. Men as a class have never (so far as I know) been particularly valued for their "purity", and rarely in a position where their faithfulness mattered to anyone with the power to impose it. And slaves... I've never heard stories of them being so "preserved" - if for some reason you wanted to ensure they didn't do anything you were likely to make them a eunuch - cheaper and more reliable, though with a modest risk of death. Though I suppose there might have been the occasional powerful women that wanted to ensure nobody else played with their toy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @08:30AM
AC was totally moving the goalposts
"men have been submissive in society before"
"what? when?"
"oh no I meant individual men. thus basically negating my entire argument"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 08 2020, @03:43PM
Illegal slavery? What about the legal slavery that was the norm worldwide until the last few hundred years?