‘What would happen if I shoved a sensor in here?’: The hackers trying to make sex toys better

Liberation, education and pleasure are perhaps not words you’d immediately associate with hacking. Yet a growing community of vibrator hackers, found in online forums, sextech hackathons and DIY sex toy workshops, are programming their sex toys in experimental ways in order to take the advancement of sextech into their own hands (while tackling the taboo of pleasure). Of course, in the wrong hands, hacking knowledge can lead to sensitive data leaks and non-consensual control over your most intimate devices. Perhaps one of the most recent, and infamous, cases involved WeVibe, and ended in a $3 million US lawsuit back in […]

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