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posted by martyb on Thursday February 11 2021, @05:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-promise-little-to-no-injury-or-your-money-back dept.

Fantastical News Everyone! Remember an earlier SN article about CELLMATE, a male chastity device that got hacked and would not unlock your hardware? Well, now the maker of that IoT device says it's now totally safe to put your equipment into their device once again! They promise! This time for sure! Nothing could go wrong!

Chastity Penis Lock Company That Was Hacked Says It's Now Totally Safe To Put Your Penis Back In That Chastity Lock

While we've covered the Internet of Broken Things for some time, where companies fail to secure the devices they sell which connect to the internet, the entire genre sort of jumped the shark in October of last year. That's when Qiui, a Chinese company, was found to have sold a penis chastity lock that communicates with an API that was wide open and sans any password protection. The end result is that users of a device that locks up their private parts could enjoy those private parts entirely at the pleasure of nefarious third parties. Qiui pushed out a fix to the API... but didn't do so for existing users, only new devices. Why? Well, the company stated that pushing it out to existing devices would again cause them to all lock up, with no override available. Understandably, there wasn't a whole lot of interest in the company's devices at that point.

But fear not, target market for penis chastity locks! Qiui says it's now totally safe to use the product again!

Since this device uses a proprietary API, there is still the issue of Vendor Lock In to be concerned about.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday February 11 2021, @06:24PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) on Thursday February 11 2021, @06:24PM (#1111645)

    Well, the Venn diagram of nudists and folks who wear chastity cages or whatever at pride parades has quite a bit of overlap.

    And people like to daydream about nudists as if they all 20 year old athlete exhibitionists. Which is ironic looking at female sport uniforms because girls/women actually have to be exhibitionists to wear many sport uniforms, whereas male uniforms are not hypersexualized. Anyway actual nudists tend toward old age and sedentary lifestyle because the young hotties have the worst self esteem issues and body image problems, so the folks on the beach are like 50+ and 300+ because it takes a certain "fuckitall" attitude to visit a nude beach. I've noticed people at the beach get along pretty well because like I said there's an intense personality filter required for admission so everyone there is of a like mind. Not all are ancient and fat but I'm well aware I'm an exception and I'm not one of those anti-science denialists who don't believe in statistics. I suppose over 300 it doesn't really matter pounds or kg its not gonna look good.

    So aside from niche pr0n videos online, the vast majority of chastity cages people see in public are worn by ... conventionally unattractive dudes. Therefore "turn on the light" and instant chastity most people are not going to consider the wearers very attractive on average.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday February 11 2021, @06:57PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday February 11 2021, @06:57PM (#1111674) Journal

    The uniform thing for sports, tends to hold true. Except where swimming competitions are involved. The guys have less on than the girls, by a fairly significant margin and those speedos gotta be snug.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 12 2021, @12:12AM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday February 12 2021, @12:12AM (#1111783) Journal

    ...why do you know this?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2021, @12:44AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2021, @12:44AM (#1111802)

      fat german tourists on holiday?