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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: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Thursday October 08 2020, @12:05AM (1 child)
I am one of the submitters of this story.
I considered this. A lot. Before submitting. NSFW kind of thing. Yp
I began to see the allegory to us adopting us willingly inserting our allegorical nuts into the same paradigm... The cloud.... Javascript... "Automatic" updates out of our control, willfully accepting ignorance of the code we run in our machine.
I can't help but see high ranking military types, all dressed up in fancy uniform, decorated with all sorts of whatnot, being entertained with displays of hundreds of Marines twirling their guns, while the technical infrastructure of an entire nation lays vulnerable to those who know the words " open sesame".
To me, this whole story is not much more than an allegory to the paradigm to accept what is offered, and willingly submit. Leadership calls this being a "team player". I have another name for it. Stand up to it and be like me. Unemployed.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 08 2020, @03:57AM
I passed by TFA once before submitting. Saw it again, and decided, "What the hell, we need a bit of levity now and then." And, I'm laughing at the "victims", not with them.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz