The Internet Of Dongs Project (Page 2)

The Internet Of Dongs Project

We-Vibe Lawsuit and the IoD

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

First Vulnerability Reports!

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.

Video posted, iOSApps and other updates

Been busy working behind the scenes on things here at the IoD project. Sure to have some big news very soon, but in the mean time, a few other noteworthy updates. First, The video of the IoD talk from Hackfest 2016 [http://www.hackfest.ca] is now online here on

So Many Updates It Hurts

Ok, back from Hackfest [http://hackfest.ca] and have a bunch of updates and great news for the IoD project. First, I can announce our first major sponsor. Though we are still figuring out the specifics of how they will be supporting/sponsoring, I can say that Pornhub [NSFW] [http:

IoD Public Debut @ Hackfest

Been a very busy and productive few weeks before Hackfest [http://hackfest.ca] and the first public presentation on the IoD project. The talk went very well despite some uncertainty and nervousness about how to even present this project and content. Now that it's over, there's

First Vulnerability Submission

In advance of the IoD's first talk at Hackfest [http://hackfest.ca/] I've submitted the first vulnerability report to a vendor. This vendor has been very open about working with us and supportive. They are willing to be a test case for us to help develop

First Media Interview

Wow, things have been moving fast. We just had our first print media interview. EAN magazine, a European erotic industry trade magazine, did an interview about the IoD project and put us in front of many industry eyeballs. Hopefully this will help get more vendors reaching out and more privacy

Quick Update

Greetings from Derbycon [https://derbycon.com] in Louisville, KY. I wanted to post an update on efforts to get this project up and running. Had some infrastructure failures, so it will be a few days before we have a system in place for researchers to submit their findings. Good news

qDot joins the Internet of Dongs team

Hi! I'm qDot [http://buttplug.engineer]. You may know me from such Internet of Dongs websites as Metafetish [https://metafetish.com] (aka slashdong.org [https://slashdong.org]). I've been reverse engineering sex toys for over a decade (with all code available via github [http://github.com/

Yes, We are hacking sex toys

Don't worry, the giggling will stop shortly. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term to describe network enabled, embedded devices. Often these devices had previously never had connectivity and their various industries are adding it for various reasons. Sometimes these reasons are sane and reasonable. Other times,