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Title    Sex Toys Are Just as Poorly-Secured as the Rest of the Internet of Broken Things
Date    Sunday October 08 2017, @10:22AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the insert-witty-something-here dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/07/1848224

MrPlow writes:

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


Original Submission

Links

  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "tea kettles" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151015/13551232547/easily-hacked-tea-kettle-latest-to-highlight-pathetic-internet-things-security.shtml
  3. "smart fridges" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/06411532041/internet-not-so-smart-things-samsungs-latest-smart-fridge-can-expose-your-gmail-password.shtml
  4. "potentially fatal threat" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160725/09460835061/internet-things-is-security-privacy-dumpster-fire-check-is-about-to-come-due.shtml
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22644

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