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LONDON - NOVEMBER 17: Rubber fetish masks are displayed at the Erotica exhibition at Olympia on November 17, 2005 in London.The four day event includes stalls selling sex toys and a live stage show featuring erotic dancing. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

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Hackers could be taking over YOUR sex toys!

James // Dave & Chuck the Freak December 3rd, 2018

BEWARE! Hackers ‘can detect your smart sex toy from outside your house – and turn it on’

They’re calling this act of detecting your pleasure device on a wifi network and then turning it on, or messing with it “screwdriving.”  So if you are an owner of one of these smart pleasure toys be careful if a hacker takes control while in use the user could NOT be able to turn it off and be at the mercy of the hacker!

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Hackers 'can detect your butt plug from outside your house - and turn it on'

Picture the scene: a hacker is hunched over a laptop in a car outside a suburban home, when suddenly from within come strange, muffled screams. This chilling scenario came a step closer today, as hackers at Pen Test Partners (short for Penetration Test, naturally), showed how to take over Bluetooth butt plugs.