Let me get this out of the way: I am a bad person and I feel bad.
I thought I was done with this crap.
But last week was bad in computer security. PHP got rooted–no, no, you can’t root a computer language, except when every web site based on PHP is vulnerable to an attack, PHP got rooted. On the same day, digital security company eMudhra was found to have deployed a poor private key for signing X.509 certificates. Only a digital security company with very special skills would use a private key of “4.”
People without deep expertise might ask “how bad was this, really?” Several other security firms immediately disclosed failures that, any other time, would have triggered blaring headlines and deeply annoyed techies. They were mere blips. This was the kind of week where everyone affected needed a shot of whiskey and a prolonged hug.
I had neither—but I did have a full-day meltdown. I bounced it past fellow author Lucy Snyder. She raised it from a shriek of pain to a tale with depth. After bouncing it between us a few times, there’s no way to tell who wrote what without digital analysis.
Allow me to present: Tormented by Teledildonics: A BDSM Cybersecurity Incident by myself and L A Snyder. (Why is Lucy using a pen name? Because BookScan. If you don’t know what that is, congratulations, you have lived a good life.)
Print is on the way. Patronizers, your ebook is coming. Other stores are coming, but they’re slower than my store.
If you search book catalogs you’ll find this in the categories Fiction/Erotica/BDSM, Fiction/Crime, and Computers/Embedded Computer Systems. After perusing Amazon’s offerings, this work is positioned to become the industry’s standard reference cautionary tale on teledildonics.