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DannyB [soylentnews.org] writes:

Fantastical News Everyone! Remember an earlier SN article [soylentnews.org] about CELLMATE, a male chastity device that got hacked and would not unlock your hardware? [bbc.com] 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 [techdirt.com]

While we've covered the Internet of Broken Things for some time, [techdirt.com] 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 [techdirt.com] 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! [vice.com]

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

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