052: Facebook tackles vengeful scumbags, and a sex toy privacy boob
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Is your dildo listening to you? Do you trust Facebook with your most intimate photos? And just how did a vengeful DDoSer come up with that nickname?

All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, who are joined this week by special guest John Hawes.

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• PSA: Lovense remote control vibrator app recording "private" sessions without express permission)

• Hack a BT Low Energy (BLE) butt plug)

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