Sarah Jamie Lewis is an anonymity and privacy researcher with a special interest in the privacy protocols (or lack thereof) of

sex toy A sex toy is an object or device that is primarily used to facilitate Human sexual activity, human sexual pleasure, such as a dildo, artificial vagina or Vibrator (sex toy), vibrator. Many popular sex toys are designed to resemble human genita ...

s. She has been cited in academic research regarding the security and

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...

considerations associated with this technology. Lewis has shared concerns about the lack of legal framework related to the field of

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus '' Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the on ...

dildonics, stating that "We are currently sprinting into this world of connected sex toys and connected sex tech without regards to what consent, privacy, or security means in that context..." and recommending "100% encrypted

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer ...

cyber sex over tor hidden services." More generally, due to the litigious environment in which computer security researchers operate, she has opted to build bespoke secure systems rather than fix broken systems.

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*https://sarahjamielewis.com Professional website *https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis Twitter account *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C54zs_-Scg8 Queer Privacy & Building Consensual Systems at Hack.Lu *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShrZ4B9R3NQ Excuse Me, I Think Your Darkweb is Leaking! *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cpx7q7SYm8 Darknet Cartography: Mapping the Evolution & Future of Anonymity *https://soundcloud.com/thingsintersect/episode-6-sex

IoT The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...

SESTA The FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) are the U.S. Senate and House bills that became law on April 11, 2018. They clarify the country's sex trafficking law to mak ...

, and Deepfake *https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/24/sextech-hacking-laws/ The law isn’t ready for the internet of sexual assault: What happens when our most intimate devices get hacked? *https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/10/better-loving-through-technology-sex-toy-hackathon Tricky tech questions: Is hacking a sex toy sexual assault? {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Sarah Jamie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Privacy activists People associated with computer security Computer security specialists People in information technology InfoSec Twitter

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