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

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Really, a kitchen should also have a type K fire extinguisher which isolates burning oil from air to prevent reignition (burning oil extinguished with an ABC dry chemical fire extinguisher is likely to reignite on its own). Unfortunately they seem rare in home kitchens, likely just due to a lack of awareness as they really aren't that expensive at the home improvement store. Glass fiber blankets are also a good choic…

Fire extinguishers require regular inspections/refills that, I fear, many home users won’t do. Because of that, I think the blanket, combined with a fire alarm (also requires inspections/maintenance, but will annoy you so much that you will replace the battery regularly) is the best option for kitchens.

> Fire extinguishers require regular inspections/refills that, I fear, many home users won’t do.

One of my habits is to put inspection dates for things like fire extinguishers, fire alarm batteries, emergency water, etc. into my calendar.

It's basically a quick check every quarter, with a full-on inspection during spring cleaning. Doesn't take much time, and gives me a lot of peace-of-mind that my emergency stuff is actually going to work when I need it.

On that note, something that I also don't see people doing, is making sure they know how to use their equipment for its intended task. I made it a point to try an extinguisher on a tiny fire in a safe setting, just to make sure I understood how it worked.

Ditto for always taking the stairs down whenever I leave a new hotel room. I get a little more exercise, and if there's a fire, I've already "escaped" once.

Pro tip: do not attempt to apply this advice while flying. They don't even let you keep the slide!

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

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post #64

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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.

It's more about a lack of available reputational signals. There's little brand awareness and few people are willing to review such intimate products. With electronics you can go by manufacturer if nothing else, intimate products often don't even have branding.

And even some of the more reputable brands have a distinct hint of skeeziness to their branding. “Fun Factory” and “The Pleasure Chest” both sound super sketch, despite both being well respected companies with a good track record.

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

#133
post #128

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…

The mind boggles at the possibilities.

while body parts shrink after reading "lock and clamp"

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

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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…

That thing is horrific. It looks so dangerous and how would one ever remove it when it’s locked in someone’s body and can’t be unlocked?

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

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Now now, we are surely spoiled for choice these days [1]. A savvy operator could easily have snagged buttplug.holdings. Or even my personal favorite -- buttplug.fishing. [1] https://www.hover.com/domains/results?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=buttp...

My personal buttplug domain collection includes: http://buttplug.engineer - My personal website http://butt.engineering - My company website ( http://nonpolynomial.com ) buttplug.zone/games/cam/online/tech/work/app - Going to point to various parts of my Intiface product line at some point. Games should probably be pointed at https://intiface.com/ghr for now.

> http://buttplug.engineer

Fantastic domain name. Too bad it's too long for a license plate :-)

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

#138
>The cage wirelessly connects to a smartphone via a Bluetooth signal, which is used to trigger the device's lock-and-clamp mechanism.

>But to achieve this, the software relies on sending commands to a computer server used by the manufacturer.

Wow...huh...as far as security holes go, that's not even an open back door, you might as well not even have a wall....

>Pen Test Partners believe about 40,000 devices have been sold based on the number of IDs that have been granted by its Guangdong-based creator.

So ~40000 people are having commands for their Bluetooth powered chastity belt sent to and from a server in China..

I personally can't think of any company I'd feel comfortable having something like that being handled remotely, let alone some mystery company in China...

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

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post #30

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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.

A german thing that made our papers was when the prostitute equivalent of the IEEE announced their new industry-wide covid safety measures, and invited local politicians to "check them out personally."

(Germans, on the other hand, marvel that our sex shows habitually offer discounts for students and seniors.)

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

#140

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…

That thing is horrific. It looks so dangerous and how would one ever remove it when it’s locked in someone’s body and can’t be unlocked?

You don't hear this much because people don't want to admit it but its almost always possible to remove these things with a bit of effort and maybe some lube.
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