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!
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 11 2021, @06:50PM (3 children)
"The Roomie"
suspicious
we may be coming up on a breakthrough for TMB
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday February 11 2021, @07:00PM (2 children)
Considering that's not the first time, he's mentioned having a "roomie", you're reading way too much into it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 11 2021, @07:26PM
It was the proposal for a Whitehouse "Odd Couple" TV show that caused many of us to read too much into it. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But the supporting of bigoted anti-LGBQT Republicans, that is not OK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2021, @12:08AM
Considering the context of wearing a mask to avoid getting diseases from your sexual partners, mentioning your "roommate" and their propensity to wear two masks has a certain "Sappho and her friend" vibe.