Loving in times of coronavirus is perhaps more complicated with having to maintain social distance, but be it this or another reason why we may need a chastity belt, technology is also there to help us. The fact is that with this electronic chastity belt for men the help can end up in a hack where, well, a certain appendix can be affected.
It is the Qiui Cellmate Chastity Cage, a device that is placed on the male sexual organ and whose function is, basically, to be an electronic block against possible sexual activity. it implies a control via mobile app and that it has Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, but a security flaw allows it to be hacked and managed remotely.
When your “trusted guardian” is impersonated and takes control “of the matter”
‘Love hurts’, reads the device’s sales website. But perhaps what hurts the most is that the Qiui Cellmate is controlled by an unauthorized third party.
Because the idea is this: you buy the device, you put it on and thanks to that built-in connectivity you give access to a third party (trusted) to be, in a way, the electronic guardian of your chastity. As long as there is no permission, your will remain inside this frame with IPX7 resistance (so that you can take it calmly when taking a bath, says the web).
The problem is that, according to Alex Lomas, a researcher at Pen Test Partners (a company specializing in security), there was a security breach that could give access not only to our guardian, but to any other user (who knew and tried to access). In fact, he already warned Qiui months ago as we read on the BBC.
Thus, what according to its creators is the “first app-controlled chastity belt” presents a truly treacherous error precisely in this function, allowing someone to permanently block the sexual organ of the users. In addition, as we see in the explanatory video they do at Pen Test Partners, the locking mechanism is so strong that in order to carry out what would be an “emergency release”, the device must be broken so that the metal clamp stops working since there is no specific function for this case.
In TechCrunch they also add that researchers have been warning Qiui for months and that the company updated the initial API, but this new version maintained the security flaw. By not seeing the problem solved and receiving information from more people who detected the errors, they decided to make it public.
The researchers were even able to locate users thanks to this failure, and although the product is currently listed as “out of stock” they calculate that it must have been distributed about 40,000 devices. The cost that appears on the web is 189 dollars, but it seems that the final price to pay may be somewhat higher speaking of having to release the device forcibly.
We will be waiting to see if the problem is finally fixed to update this article if this occurs, but in the meantime … Perhaps it is worth using willpower rather than technology for this purpose.
