Genius alliteration on the sub-headline guys
FTC urged to probe easily penetrated telly-enabled teledildonic toy
The US Federal Trade Commission has been urged to launch a probe into a hackable sex toy, which is potentially exposing couples' teledildonic frolics to cyberpervs. Earlier this month, the Siime Eye vibrator was discovered to utilise hard-coded credentials making it "trivial" for attackers to gain unauthorised access to the …
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Thursday 27th April 2017 11:44 GMT Tachikoma
I remember a few years ago it was a "thing" to put a particular search string into Google and it would give you the results for all the unsecured/open IP webcams and you could (allegedly) sit there watching nightclub door security cameras or baby monitors, etc. No doubt someone is crafting the search string for these devices as we speak.
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Thursday 27th April 2017 13:45 GMT DNTP
Re: Weird place to start
The sex toy industry doesn't have an army of lobbyists in DC constantly screaming for deregulation. Also a lot of our politicians think they can score 'morality points'.
Doesn't make an excuse for having horrible security practices in the first place. I guess it's not the government's business if people die in chemical factory disasters, as long as we're adequately regulating harmless consensual private activities between adults.
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Thursday 27th April 2017 14:25 GMT ma1010
FCC do something to stop this? Not bloody likely!
Remember, this is Pai, the guy who doesn't believe in any sort of privacy if it might possibly hinder corporate profits. He will probably be promulgating rules to allow the manufacturer to own the rights to put the video feeds on the Internet where they can charge pervs to watch them. Or he might create rules for a bidding system where, if the users pay an exorbitant fee, the company won't put their videos on the Internet. "Welcome to Blackmail, the game you can play with yourself."
I wouldn't put any of this past him. Paris because I think Pai is about that bright. Or maybe he is smart, but just evil.
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Thursday 27th April 2017 17:59 GMT Sleep deprived
Internet of Toys
- Ma'am, telemetry has informed us your... *ahem* toy is about to run out of power and our records indicate you're a heavy user so you might not want to wait the recharge time.
- You're bringing me a fresh power pack to swap in?
- Unfortunately, my service truck is lacking spare parts. But you may want to settle for the real thing... I'm here to help.
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