<story><title>Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>Smart consumers won&amp;#x27;t buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;s part of the thrill.</text></item><item><author>qdot76367</author><text>This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I&amp;#x27;ve had a few people contact me (note: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;buttplug.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;buttplug.io&lt;/a&gt; (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.&lt;p&gt;There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the tech. Not only that, they&amp;#x27;re doubling down on their production of unsafe equipment, including their newest toy (Link NSFW): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&amp;#x2F;item&amp;#x2F;1005001341771957.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&amp;#x2F;item&amp;#x2F;1005001341771957.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tarq0n</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s more about a lack of available reputational signals. There&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;t even have branding.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54436575</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srtjstjsj</author><text>Smart consumers won&amp;#x27;t buy a $10 memory card on Ali because it&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;s part of the thrill.</text></item><item><author>qdot76367</author><text>This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I&amp;#x27;ve had a few people contact me (note: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;buttplug.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;buttplug.io&lt;/a&gt; (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.&lt;p&gt;There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the tech. Not only that, they&amp;#x27;re doubling down on their production of unsafe equipment, including their newest toy (Link NSFW): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&amp;#x2F;item&amp;#x2F;1005001341771957.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&amp;#x2F;item&amp;#x2F;1005001341771957.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vsareto</author><text>&amp;gt;I guess that&amp;#x27;s part of the thrill.&lt;p&gt;Yeah looking forward to the day where passing unit tests results in a Neuralink-induced orgasm</text></comment>