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11-11-2017, 10:22 AM
A remote-controlled vibrator secretly recorded user's entire sex session. Eek.
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Welp. Here's another scenario to add to your list of terrifying ways a remote-controlled vibrator can turn against you.
In a post Wednesday, Redditor tydoctor (https://www.reddit.com/user/tydoctor) detailed a deeply disturbing incident (https://www.reddit.com/r/sex/comments/7bmi3i/psa_lovense_remote_control_vibrator_app_recording/?st=j9ub9789&sh=e8d1ec41) related to the Lovense remote-controlled vibrator app: *
"I was going through my phone media to prepare it for a factory reset and came across a .3gp file named "tempSoundPlay.3gp" in the folder for the App. The file was a FULL audio recording 6 minutes long of the last time I had used the app to control my SO's remote control vibrator (We used it at a bar while playing pool)."
The app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lovense.wear&hl=en), which can be used to control several sex toys made by Lovense (https://www.lovense.com/), does apparently ask for permission to access the phone's mic and camera, but it's only supposed to be used for the in-app chat — so users can send voice commands to the person controlling the remote from afar.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/10/lovense-vibrator-app-recorded-privacy-hack/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Welp. Here's another scenario to add to your list of terrifying ways a remote-controlled vibrator can turn against you.
In a post Wednesday, Redditor tydoctor (https://www.reddit.com/user/tydoctor) detailed a deeply disturbing incident (https://www.reddit.com/r/sex/comments/7bmi3i/psa_lovense_remote_control_vibrator_app_recording/?st=j9ub9789&sh=e8d1ec41) related to the Lovense remote-controlled vibrator app: *
"I was going through my phone media to prepare it for a factory reset and came across a .3gp file named "tempSoundPlay.3gp" in the folder for the App. The file was a FULL audio recording 6 minutes long of the last time I had used the app to control my SO's remote control vibrator (We used it at a bar while playing pool)."
The app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lovense.wear&hl=en), which can be used to control several sex toys made by Lovense (https://www.lovense.com/), does apparently ask for permission to access the phone's mic and camera, but it's only supposed to be used for the in-app chat — so users can send voice commands to the person controlling the remote from afar.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/10/lovense-vibrator-app-recorded-privacy-hack/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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