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Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by ArchOversight »

ben_w wrote: post #9
qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

> link “According to local laws and regulations, this item could not be shown.” Dare I ask?

Buttplug that expands outwards, and has bluetooth.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by ficklepickle »

ben_w wrote: post #9
qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

> link “According to local laws and regulations, this item could not be shown.” Dare I ask?

Reminiscent of the medieval pear of anguish.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by eatingCake »

qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

> someday I will write a book

That would make a great coffee-table book. Some image on one page and a short narrative on the opposing page.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by srtjstjsj »

qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

Smart consumers won't buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it's likely to be a destructive fake, but people will buy Internet-controlled electronics for their favorite nether regions of their bodies. Amazing. I guess that's part of the thrill.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by ebg13 »

srtjstjsj wrote: post #14
qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

Smart consumers won't buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it's likely to be a destructive fake, but people will buy Internet-controlled electronics for their favorite nether regions of their bodies. Amazing. I guess that's part of the thrill.

Being aware of specific marketplace corruption isn't the same as being smart, and vice versa. And there's no reason to believe that the set of people buying these devices is the same as the set of people not buying memory cards.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by simonswords82 »

ben_w wrote: post #9
qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

> link “According to local laws and regulations, this item could not be shown.” Dare I ask?

Where are you that you're having your Internet censored?

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by [deleted] »

ben_w wrote: post #9
qdot76367 wrote: post #3

This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

> link “According to local laws and regulations, this item could not be shown.” Dare I ask?

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Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Post by lsiebert »

simonswords82 wrote: post #17
ben_w wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> link “According to local laws and regulations, this item could not be shown.” Dare I ask?

Where are you that you're having your Internet censored?

aliexpress does that for anything on mobile that it thinks is sex related, which is occasionally annoying when it gets something wrong, but is definitely not wrong in this situation.
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