Sex Toy Company Admits To Recording Users' Remote Sex Sessions, Calls It a 'Minor Bug' (theverge.com)
According to Reddit user jolioshmolio, Hong Kong-based sex toy company Lovense's remote control vibrator app (Lovense Remote) recorded a use session without their knowledge. "An audio file lasting six minutes was stored in the app's local folder," reports The Verge. "The user says he or she gave the app access to the mic and camera but only to use with the in-app chat function and to send voice clips on command -- not constant recording when in use." The app's behavior appears to be widespread as several others confirmed it too. From the report: A user claiming to represent Lovense responded and called this recording a "minor bug" that only affects Android users. Lovense also says no information or data was sent to the company's servers, and that this audio file exists only temporarily. An update issued today should fix the bug. This isn't Lovense's first security flub. Earlier this year, a butt plug made by the company -- the Hush -- was also found to be hackable. In the butt plug's case, the vulnerability had to do with Bluetooth, as opposed to the company spying on users.
It's not the size of the bug that counts, it's what you do with it.
In ancient Pompeii, brothel visitors used to document their sexual predilections with graffiti on the walls. These have proved to be very useful to archaeologists trying to understand what all those folks in Pompeii were up to.
Maybe if they weren't fucking like bunnies, they might have noticed that a volcano protoplasmic wind was about to turn them into toast.
Anyway . . . maybe these recorded "Remote Sexual Sessions" will be useful to archeologists in the future . . . ?
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Why would a remote control vibrator have a "chat function"?
In case you care, Lovesense is very popular among cam-girl sites. Yes, there are guys on these sites, but nobody cares about them. And by all means, do add links to such sites as a response to this post.
What a hoot. ALL of them are hackable. They advertise an SDK, which they won't give you because they're trying to scam all the web cam sites into paying for apps, but you don't even need it. Just use a flippin Bluetooth sniffer for chrissakes. The commands for the vibe are e.g. "vibrate 10", "vibrate 20" etc, where the number is the intensity.
What a joke.
LOL@vword: "motherly"
I've noticed stupid amount of permissions it requires and that it seems to send stupidly large amount of data to the internet. They said "blablabla privacy, blabla bla we do not record". I said bullshit and never used it on anything that's conencted to the internet (old tabled that I blocked on firewall).
Time for another lawsuit? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/technology/we-vibe-vibrator-lawsuit-spying.html
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Why don't you post the file, so we can draw an informed opinion?
#DeleteChrome
...would anyone listen to random people with too much disposable income bumping uglies?
Hell, we turn on music so we donâ(TM)t listen to ourselves.
I am my own gestalt.
well played
What would a "he" do with a vibrator....haha
as opposed to the company spying on users
If the recordings never left the phone, the company wasn't spying.
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What in the world.... Just get a device with its own wired remote. Smh
There is a stupid urge to create an app to connect to common devices all around the house that JUST DON'T NEED IT!!!!
Sex toys? Why? Should there be an app-connected bottle of personal lube as well?
Should the water faucet in the kitchen and bathroom be connected to an app? Why? Would you take out your smartphone and push a few buttons to turn on the water, set the temperature and dispense liquid soap?
Should an electric shaver be controlled by an app and if so, how would you shave while you adjust the settings on your smartphone?
Why have a connected dildo or a connected butt plug? Why would it ever require access to email, address books, gps location, and the microphone and camera?
Stop the insanity!
I hooe im not the only one that got a good laugh out of the name they gave the butt plug....
Ultimately this has potential to recreate "sex sessions of the stars". How long will it be before everyone is able to record and playback and relive those intimate moments? "Sex tapes" will become passe', when compared to fully interactive virtual experiences being passed around, or sold, by the companies that sold you the basic hardware to play with, years after you first played with it. Maybe standard protocols for sexual interaction will emerge, like MIDI values for every basic position in the kama sutra... defined values for motion controllers, and the like. Please note that I am neither praising or condemning this future, I just happen to think that if any technology can be used during sex, it will, and thus I tend to think that discounted interactive sex toys that do broadcast your activities will be cheaper than those that don't - much like you can get a kindle without advertisements for more money. My nightmare, I guess, is that you'll end up seeing ads projected over the body parts of your virtual lovers if you don't pay the tax.
Created a bug that deliberately records everything you do and say and sends it all back to us! But it was an accident and it is a bug we swear and hope to die horribly in total agony!
The moral of the story: in your sex toys, always use only open-source software that you compiled yourself.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
A butt plug is hackable? Of course it is. What's so weird about it?
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