DEF CON Finds The Worst Attack Surface
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The image is a collage of slides from a DEF CON presentation about connected sex-toy security, with a large slide reading "Buttplug code execution: why?". Three illustrated device icons are labeled "Buttplug ransomware", "Weaponized buttplug", and "Hostile buttplug", including lock, checkmark, fire, X, wireless-signal, and laptop imagery. A lower inset shows the DEFCON logo and a title slide reading "Adventures in buttplug penetration (testing)" with the handle "@smealum", plus a small skull-and-crossbones graphic and a speaker on stage. The technical joke is that the standard security vocabulary of code execution, ransomware, hostile devices, and penetration testing becomes brutally literal when the target is an IoT device with wireless control.
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Every connected device eventually asks the same architecture review question: what is the blast radius of giving it Bluetooth and a firmware update path?