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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hackers Hold Man's Penis For Ransom In Digital Chastity Belt, Demand Bitcoin To Unlock [View all]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ad5xp/we-spoke-to-a-guy-who-got-his-dick-locked-in-a-cage-by-a-hacker|You simply can't make this stuff up.
Sam Summers was sitting at home with his penis wrapped in an internet-connected chastity cage when he got a weird message on the app that connects to the device. Someone told him they had taken control and they wanted around $1,000 in Bitcoin to give control back to Summers.
"Initially, I thought it was my partner doing that," Summers told Motherboard in a phone call. "It sounds silly, but I got a bit excited by it."
But when Summers called his partner, she told him it wasn't her, even after he told her their safe word. That's when he realized he had gotten hacked. His penis was locked in the cage, and he had no way out.
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"Initially, I thought it was my partner doing that," Summers told Motherboard in a phone call. "It sounds silly, but I got a bit excited by it."
But when Summers called his partner, she told him it wasn't her, even after he told her their safe word. That's when he realized he had gotten hacked. His penis was locked in the cage, and he had no way out.
More at link.
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Hackers Hold Man's Penis For Ransom In Digital Chastity Belt, Demand Bitcoin To Unlock [View all]
MicaelS
Feb 2021
OP
If this story is for real, what is his penis doing in a cage in the first place?
Irish_Dem
Feb 2021
#1
Someone posted that his partner can control the cage when she is out of town via the internet.
Irish_Dem
Feb 2021
#49
What the actual F? Penis in a cage? Seriously? Connected to the Internet? Hacked? I may never stop
lettucebe
Feb 2021
#4
This might be the greatest written opening sentence on a news story that I have ever read.
OAITW r.2.0
Feb 2021
#10
Why the hell would you buy one of these without a manual override of some sort?
happybird
Feb 2021
#16
It was bad enough when people just put pictures of their penis on the Internet. n/t
PoliticAverse
Feb 2021
#14
This incident also made Summers reconsider using internet-connected devices,
underpants
Feb 2021
#48