So in the world of sex tech hacking, it can get pretty weird sometimes. 2023 certainly had on of the odder ones. Never thought I'd be the subject matter expert on a chess cheating allegation. While it's an issue that has passed, I wanted to finally

Everything we do, own, and use has risk involved. Sometimes thats physical or health risks, others are security and privacy risks. One thing we here at the IoD project are trying to do is to make people aware of the risks as well as the benifits of IoD devices. This

*Another side note: Unsplash stock photography keeps amazing me with what I find **Update: Switched to locally hosted files vs Google Doc links. Please email any suggestions or edits to info@internetofdon.gs We had a lovely time in Detroit for the Securing Sexuality conference. Below are the pages of

Side Note: I swear, unsplash has the weirdest stock images available The IoD is back on the road. We will be at the Securing Sexuality [https://www.securingsexuality.com/#/] conference in Detroit on October 19th and 20th. First of it's kind conference bringing together Sex therapists, technologists, hackers

Valentines day is coming, and so you might you. If you want considering a connected sex toy, here are some things to consider to keep yourself secure and your data private

As usually happens, any connected sex toy security news gets sent to me pretty quickly, saving me a bunch of time and effort.  Thank you lazyweb! A friend sent me a link to a blog post [https://bananamafia.dev/post/satisfyer/] on Bananamafia.dev [https://bananamafia.dev/] about vulnerabilities found

B [https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/valentines-day/] elow are a set of assessments for the same devices as assessed by the Mozilla Foundation in their Privacy not included Valentines 2019 list [https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/valentines-day/] .  These are meant to supplement the Mozilla assessments and

The IoD supplemental assessments are available here [https://internetofdon.gs/privacy-and-context-not-included-iod-assesments/] The Mozilla foundation recently published a Valentines version of their "* privacy not included [https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/valentines-day/] " lists. These lists detail the common gifts around a holiday season and document some of the

So, just as I'm getting on a plane for a digital detox weekend, VICE media [https://vice.com] decided to post an article based on an interview [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmdxnj/meet-brad-the-guy-keeping-your-vibrator-safe-from-hackers] I did with author Mark Hay back in July, 3-1/2 months

As anyone who follows the project on Twitter or read my previous rebuttal [https://internetofdon.gs/rebuttal-to-pen-test-partners/], Pen Test Partners has been fairly active in researching various IoD devices on their own. As can be read here [https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/vulnerable-wi-fi-dildo-camera-endoscope-yes-really/] , here [https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/adult-iot-toys-privacy-invasion-or-worse/

So much writing needs to be done, I can't keep up. Far too much uninformed research and just pure conjecture to keep up with. Basically, something could be the most boring thing on the planet, but the moment it's associated with sex, it's a

As typically happens when sex toy related news hits, my phone began pinging incessantly as half of the Internet sent me a link to this Motherboard article [https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/camera-dildo-svakom-siime-eye-hacked-livestream] about hacking the Svakom Siime Eye [http://www.svakom.net/Siime-Eye/]. The Siime Eye is

As was reported widely late last year, and discussed here on this site [https://internetofdon.gs/2016/12/12/we-vibe-lawsuit-and-the-iod/], Standard Innovation (SI), the company behind the We-Vibe was being sued in US court over their failure to disclose data their app collected. Well, they finally settled the lawsuit [https:

Been a busy and productive few weeks here. Very happy to announce that we've now got several vendors on board with their full support for the IoD project. This means they they have committed to adopting our Vendor Code Of Conduct [https://internetofdon.gs/vendor-code-of-conduct/] and implementing our

The kind donation [https://internetofdon.gs/2017/01/11/first-big-sponsor/] from Pornhub[NSFW] [https://pornhub.com] continues to be put to use acquiring more devices to add to the collection for us to test. So far, we've got the following on order due to arrive any day: * Honey

Thanks to the sponsorship [https://internetofdon.gs/2017/01/11/first-big-sponsor/] of PornHub [NSFW] [https://pornhub.com], we've got our first new batch of toys for testing and more on the way. We now have a Kiiroo His and Hers set [https://www.kiiroo.com/product/onyx-pearl-couple/], aka

This project has been moving faster and succeeding more than I had ever expected. Its almost like I know what I'm doing (a scary thought). Though still 60 days out, I'm so confident that things will continue to grow and thrive, I renewed the internetofdon.gs

As was announced [https://internetofdon.gs/2016/11/08/so-many-updates-it-hurts/] at Hackfest [https://hackfest.ca/], Pornhub [NSFW] [https://pornhub.com] has been a supporter from the very early days and recognized the importance to consumers security and privacy that this project has. They wonderfully stated it as "We’re

The idea for the IoD project started long ago, but it was created with the same concerns that the recent We-Vibe Lawsuit [http://www.refinery29.com/2016/09/123049/sex-toy-lawsuit-we-vibe-tracking-users] suddenly brought to the forefront of everyone's attention. In fact that lawsuit accelerated the launch of the IoD

It was kind of an open secret that the first vulnerabilities [https://internetofdon.gs/2016/10/29/first-vulnerability-submission/] set in were for our first vendor partner Lovense [http://www.lovense.com] since doing so was helping to build us sort out the steps for a framework for vendors to follow.