CEV-17M5-15
Description:
Crocker Labs’ Aspect Corset, marketed as an alternative to high heels and expensive tailoring, has an in-store setup, after which the programming radio interface is to be destructively removed. It is possible to hard wire a connection to the damaged interface and “unlock” testing modes which were not intended for sentient use.
Base Score:
3.0/10
Recall:
Modification of the Aspect Corset will revoke all liability coverage. Firmware Update 21 strengthens security. Owners may discontinue use until the Aspect Corset can be brought to the place of purchase for a firmware update.
This CEV is low priority because it requires physical access while not being worn. Unaltered Standard modes are considered safe.
Credit:
CaxAndDox, self proclaimed Consumer Rights Social Hactivists group
CEV-17M5-23
Description:
Crocker Labs’ Aspect Corset, marketed as an alternative to high heels and expensive tailoring, has an indoor wireless setup process. During this process, an encrypted 3d scan of the body is uploaded to the aspect corset device; this is referred to while the devices is tightened an loosened, as both an original owner lockdown and safety mechanism.
While this encrypted scan has not been compromised, remaining read/write storage space has. This space can be used to upload arbitrary code, including potentially dangerous variant resizing modes.
Base Score:
5.5/10
Recall:
Modification of the Aspect Corset will revoke all liability coverage. Firmware Update 27 strengthens security. Owners may discontinue use until the Aspect Corset can be brought to the place of purchase for a firmware update.
Credit:
CaxAndDox, self proclaimed Consumer Rights Social Hactivists group
Follow up to CEV-17M5-15
“Oh hell. They made it sound like soldering a usb cable to the controller board has nothing to do with it.” Roxy was hunched over her laptop.
“I mean, it makes business sense. If you don’t want to start a panic or issue a full recall.” Jade was laying on the couch. She was slowly detailing a plastic mask – A cat mask. She’d found it at a rummage sale, and she wasn’t quite sure now novel it was. Only that it needed to be a bit more elaborately painted. She was on the lookout for a dog mask of similar style – that one would be hers.
Gods didn’t go to random rummage sales. Of course, to the world, they had been deadbeat gods for 5000 years, so this was just a perfectly average girl collecting paraphernalia.
“Yu aren’t planning on starting a counter business or anything, are yas?”
“I’m sure it’d be conflict of interest. or something. Spatial modification is supposed to be my thing, but I’m not going to be all capitalist about it.” Jade paused to re-whet her paintbrush. The goal was not to make the wearer look like a god, but a worshiper. With Jane Crocker – it was her corporation obviously – being a god, it was safer to be seen as a worshiper of a different one than the god herself. “What do you think, ‘Cax’?”
Roxy looked over at the mask being held up. “Cat and Dog” sounded a little less rebellious than “CaxAndDox” – though neither knew if it would sound corny or… futuristic? Ancient? Despite the 5000 years they hadn’t experienced, there was still a disconnect.
“I could work wit dat. Could use a little mor whisskers though? P P?” Roxy’s slurred speech, surprisingly, wasn’t as rare as one might think – Carapaces always stood up to care for the young, with the caveat they were not good at correcting mispronunciations as humans or trolls might. Well, “correct” or “mock”, depending on context. Trolls, if anything, mocked if your speech patterns weren’t distinct enough, as if every sentence must be personally branded.
“Could it wait for the second video? Like proof that time had passed?”
Roxy leaned a bit while considering. “I spose. Ar we releasin rite away? Shuldn’t we wait for yr mask?”
“I’ll be behind the camera, obviously. We have to hammer before even more dangerous products are sold.”
“But the test patterns ar fine. An-“
“And if you can hack this irresponsible product, so can anyone. We need to force them to stop sales now. Provided your Janie actually has a conscience.”
“She doesn’t even think being a gd changes how people treat er…” Roxy admitted. Again.
“If she isn’t being tricked by her underlings, exceptions, exceptions, exceptions. So this is the way to get her attention with making less of a scene. I’m ready. Are you ready?”
“Shur.” Roxy didn’t bother to unplug the USB cable, it hung like a tail from their “debug” aspect corset… slightly mutilated with their tampering, but defiantly functional. Jade had come to her with concerns, perhaps jealousy. She had been helpful with the deciphered math – not really Roxy’s thing. That was code. Hardware hacking.
IT was much easier to put on an aspect corset than a normal one, presumably. Part of the selling point. The laces were controls more than anything, the thing was barely more structured than a t-shirt. It made some comforting whistles as it did basic checks – she had not been working to override the initial calibration scan quite yet – and gave a little chime to accept input.
She moved over and slipped on her lab coat – what does a programmer need a lab coat for? Style. Jade handed her the just fried mask- which she donned – Jane would probably recognize her hair, but none of her modern worshipers would be the wiser – “wai, can I try sommin with my voice? Jus…”
Roxy gargled a little bit. “A I U E O AIUEO JON MADDEN JON MADDEN JOHN MADDEN AIUEO.” Her voice sounded robotic, like she had learned from a y2k voice sintisizer. “DOES THIS SOUND COOL?”
“I guess… we can always run it through a voice distorter anyways.” Jade held up the phone. “Ok, like we discussed…”
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[Description]
The video is in what appear to be a computer room jammed into a corner of an apartment. The frame is mostly filled by a slight woman, face covered with a LomLon mask, wearing a lab coat. Air frizzy pink, hands black skinned. She speaks in a robotic manner.
“Hello, Crocker Coperation. CaxAndDox tried to warn you of the dangers of your fashion undergarment, but you have opted to put profit over safety. You have forced our hand, we have to expose what the Aspect Corset can do with the slightest bit of meddling.”
The woman opens the labcoat, showing she is wearing a hot pink mesh leotard underneath, contrasting with her skin, and an aspect corset over that. Turning, pulling the coat further out of the way, hanging it over her arm while still wearing it, she shows a usb cable hanging from the back of the garment like a tail. A hand – paler – comes from behind the camera to hit a key on a keyboard next to the cable.
Instead of adjusting her proportions of height and width like in the commercials, the garment starts to pull her waist tighter, like a belt being pulled around her waist. It slowly reaches more preposterous hourglass proportions – and then seems to reach a single point – and then keeps going, the middle of the hourglass becoming an air gap, like somebody pointing two pens at each other but not letting them touch. She seems to have ho issues still standing, but waves hand between her two halves as she turns to so side, back, side, front again.
The video goes black with “Recall the Aspect Corset Now!” with two CEV codes.
The video loops.
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