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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 londons_explore »

ben_w wrote: post #30
cinntaile wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can access that link just fine on mobile. You probably live in a more prude part of the world if you can't access that link on mobile.

I’m in Berlin. The spinny billboards arrive here advertise brothels, the fly posters say “Bleib Ruhig und Dildos benutzen” and “There is no I in anal”, and one of the largest hotels has a neon sculpture of Leda and the Swan, at least two stories tall, out front.

In the UK, the AliExpress mobile site gets me to click "Yes, I am over 18" before letting me open it.

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

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Post by gnopgnip »

Zenst wrote: post #35

I didn't see what type of battery it has, but imagine having a non-solid state lithium based battery locked to a part of your body - anywhere. That type of device failing in an epic way with flames and no way to remove it in time - just seems like that's a latent headline just awaiting. Even worse - most people would panic and chuck water upon it. Wondering what is the safest thing to put upon a lithium based fire ho…

Baking soda or salt is preferable for putting out a fire. Or sand or kitty litter. Water as a last resort. Flour and baking power can be flammable

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

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Post by evan_ »

Thorentis wrote: post #39
EForEndeavour wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, this chastity thing is weird to me too, but "serves them right?" Assuming consent, I feel the answer to badly implemented sex gear should be well-implemented sex gear, not no sex gear at all. "What have we come to as a species" is an expression of shock better saved for things like our species' propensity to torture and kill unwilling victims. That's fucked up.

It was more an expression of dismay at the lack of evolutionary fitness these actions are displaying. Your fitness is literally measured by your ability to reproduce, and here are people locking their penis inside a device that a) it intended for somebody else to control (weird) b) is actually defective and they ended up being stuck inside it, and worst case could've set their member on fire. Somebody give them a Dar…

that's a bad metric. If our ancient ancestors sat on a rock staring at a flickering rectangle for 8 hours a day they'd be eaten by tigers, but we're doing OK.

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

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Post by vsareto »

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.

>I guess that's part of the thrill.

Yeah looking forward to the day where passing unit tests results in a Neuralink-induced orgasm

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

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Post by paledot »

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…

Buttplug.io is officially my new favourite domain name.

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

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Post by kennywinker »

greycol wrote: post #6

While the headline certainly is having a device like this needing to be ground open the other privacy concerns are quite possibly worse. Being able to track both the name of who bought it and the location of someone using a device like this has got to be a near classic example of private information that hurts no one but could severely damage a person if it got out.

THIS!

The headline is about them getting locked on, because that's funny, but the buried lead is actually this:

> The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used.

That's some really sensitive info, with the potential to destroy some lives, or be used as blackmail material.

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