Your 'intimate personal massager' – cough – is spying on you DEF CON has a lot of odd talks, but the successful hacking of a vibrator by two researchers from New Zealand drew a big crowd. The two-person team of g0ldfisk and follower got hold of the schematics for the We Vibe 4 Plus, a U-shaped vibrator that can be controlled via Bluetooth using a remote control or a smartphone app. The …
I took a look at the processor listed. It is a bit old. The list price is higher than I would expect. Very few places pay list, but the list price is rough estimate. It's easily possible to buy a much less expensive part.
There is a fair chance that the device was picked because of the development kit. If so, it's probably almost exactly the example application in the development kit. Including the same packet size, with only the first byte having application-customized meaning.
Please tell me the device in question belongs to Tarah Wheeler.
Of all the revelations coming out of Def con, ATM, vehicle exploits etc, thank you El Reg for finding this one.
Backed hacker's packed slack crack hacked, penetration testing to follow?
It's U shaped? Oh I get it, I had to think on that for a minute.
A "Faraday Cage" refers to a very specific type of enclosure (usually a mesh to boot).
In general, they would have been more correct in just calling the human body an "attenuator".
Also, achievement unlocked - discussing Faraday Cages w.r.t. bodies on a Monday morning. The week is off to a good start...
What is it about religious twats that makes them opposed to sex? Typical, as soon as you're too old and/or too repressed you tried to stop everyone else having fun. Sorry but evolution put our "fun bits" right in front of us to a) remind us to keep using and playing with them and b) make it extra easy to touch/use/abuse each others! ( All in the context for a loving and consensual relationship of course. )
Nothing quite like getting a new toy from LoveHoney for you an your partner to see what weird and wonderful ways you can be "planes"(*)!
( * Get inside the other and other take each other to heaven and back! )
"Typical, as soon as you're too old and/or too repressed you tried to stop everyone else having fun."
You missed the other category - they didn't want other people having the same fun as they did. The "moral panic" over pr0n really got going in the UK when it started to be available to the lower classes through photographs and public art galleries. It was no longer the preserve of the upper classes who had previously controlled access to it.
It was the same thinking espoused by Mary Whitehouse and Lord Longford. Their moral superiority meant they were not affected by what they read or saw in their investigations. However they believed that anyone else would be instantly corrupted by it.
The same paradox exists still in the internet. People are employed to search for illegal pr0n. The more successful they are at finding a pr0n slant in innocuous things - the more successful their careers in that role. It doesn't seem to occur to them that the cesspit perception is only in their own minds.
The Church was influenced by St Augustine's proscriptions - yet he is famous for the quote when younger - "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."
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Why the hate?
This is just another hack of an IoT device. One of a class of device that also happens to have some potential for embarassment/blackmail to its users. Funny to the Reg crowd, cuz we are often, hmmm, bit weird. But it's still a depressingly common thread of IoT to have bad security. No more, no less.
But it's still a depressingly common thread of IoT to have bad security.
When I read about this thing sending usage data base to base, the only thing I could think of was "why ?" - just why on earth does it have to, and why do they collect it.
That's just fail all over.
Tempting to go and get one - apart from the intended use which I think me and 'er indoors might enjoy, give an opportunity to have a go at our Data Protection bods.
The thing has a remote control function. So you can send the missus a vibe during the day instead of a text. So it makes sense that there is a mothership server to intermediate through, but less so that they store and even less that they are not secure.
That said people struggle to use secure passwords on banking sites or routers, can't expect too much resetting of factory defaults on a sex toy.
All the developers have done here is bring masturbation up to parity with genuine beast-with-two-backs action. Now your vibrator can spill the beans* on your love life just as effectively as a jilted lover. I can see the red-top headlines now: "Five-times-a-night! Celeb just can't get enough, says her love toy."
*Not the most appropriate analogy, I admit.
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