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iPhone 7 teardowns: Big Taptic Engine, Intel modems, waterproofing, and more

The teardowns give us some new info and confirm some old rumors.

The iPhone 7 Plus, exploded.

iFixit

It's iPhone release day, and while people around the world wait impatiently by their windows for the delivery truck or in line at Apple Stores, the iPhone teardown cottage industry has been ripping the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus apart to see how they tick.

iFixit's is still the teardown of record, though as of this writing it has only torn down the larger of the two phones. The write-up focuses in part on the stuff that Apple is doing with the space freed up by killing the headphone jack. A bigger battery is part of that—the 2900mAh, 11.1wHr battery in the 7 Plus is a step up from the 2750mAh battery in the 6S Plus, though still not quite as large as the 2915mAh battery in the old 6 Plus. Chipworks' teardown notes that the standard iPhone 7 battery is now 1960mAh, a step up from the 1810mAh in the iPhone 6 and the 1715mAh battery in the 6S.

A lot of that space goes to the new Taptic Engine, too, which is several times larger than the version in the iPhone 6S Plus. Apple says the larger Taptic Engine is more precise, something necessary both to make the solid-state home button feel like a physical button and to enable the haptic feedback API supported on both iPhones 7. And some of it is taken up by a plastic bumper "that seems to channel sound from outside the phone into the microphone."

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Alleged KickassTorrents Owner Denied Access to U.S. Counsel

This week the U.S. sent notice to Polish authorities indicating it wants to extradite Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of KickassTorrents. Vaulin’s defense team is reviewing the request but warns that the case is turning into an international due process problem, as he is still unable to meet his U.S. counsel.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

kickasstorrents_500x500 In July, Polish law enforcement officers arrested Artem Vaulin, the alleged founder of KickassTorrents, who’s been held in a local prison since.

Polish authorities acted on a criminal complaint from the U.S. Government, which accused him of criminal copyright infringement and money laundering.

Last month the 30-year-old Ukrainian was indicted together with two co-conspirators, all with ties to Ukraine. While the fate of the other two is unknown, we’ve learned that the U.S. Government has now officially requested Vaulin’s extradition.

TorrentFreak spoke with Vaulin’s U.S. counsel Ira Rothken who informed us that the U.S. sent official notice of the extradition request to Poland this week.

The defense team is still working on getting the paperwork translated back into English so they can respond, but meanwhile they highlight another crucial issue.

Even though nearly two months have passed, the alleged KickassTorrents owner still hasn’t been allowed to meet with his U.S. defense team. A clear due process violation, according to Rothken.

“We still have not had an opportunity, nor have we been granted access, to meet with Artem Vaulin in prison in Poland. So we now believe that this has ripened into an international due process problem.

“We believe that Artem’s rights are now being impacted with his inability to communicate with U.S. counsel,” Rothken tells TF.

While Vaulin is allowed to meet with his Polish lawyer, Rothken stresses that this is not enough, since the case deals with a U.S. indictment, under U.S. law, based on evidence gathered by the United States of America.

“There’s no way that there could be a fair trial in the United States, or a fair extradition process, without Artem being able to have access to U.S. counsel, to learn his rights, to be able to galvanize the evidence, and to do so in a robust and expedient manner,” Rothken tells TF.

This issue doesn’t only apply to the U.S. case, but also affects the extradition process and proceedings, which have just begun.

In recent weeks Vaulin’s defense team have exhausted every option they have to set up a meeting with the U.S. counsel, but all requests have been rejected so far.

“We have gone through all the hurdles that we could possibly go through with the Polish authorities. Right now there’s simply no proper basis for them not to give access, other than the fact that they’re involved in procedural gamesmanship,” Rothken says.

Instead, the defense sees no other option than to raise the issue in court. They plan to do so in the near future and hope to have the case dismissed as a result of these due process problems.

“Right now we think the only remedy can be that when you go ahead and interfere with a U.S. defendant having access to his U.S. counsel, the entire case should be dismissed in the interest of justice,” Rothken concludes.

More news about the due process problems and the extradition process is expected to become available as the case evolves.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

How the feds used Internet searches to find 5 child pornography victims

Let me Google that for you: EXIF data and public Internet used to crack open case.

"[Rev. Dr.] Jim [Parkhurst] plays guitar, sings in a symphony chorus, loves to hike, does crossword puzzles, and is an avid reader. He enjoys spoiling his twin nephews on annual trips to our national parks in the west."

-Post announcing Parkhurst's new job, January 2015

In 2013, federal agents investigating the child pornography collection of one David S. Engle—who was later sentenced in Washington state to 25 years in prison—came across a new set of eight images. The pictures showed five boys, ranging in age from around seven to 15, urinating outdoors, shaving their pubic hair, and posing naked in bathtubs.

According to an affidavit from Postal Inspector Maureen O'Sullivan, who helped investigate the images, the photo set was "emerging and being widely distributed and traded by child pornography collectors on a national and international scale." Being new and uncatalogued, the images were forwarded to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which maintains a vast database on prohibited images for use in investigations and image blacklists.

While law enforcement generally focuses on finding those who create and/or trade child pornography, a simultaneous effort is made to identify—and if necessary to secure—the victims. At the federal level, this task is centralized within NCMEC at the Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP)—and this new image set wound up at CVIP accordingly. The investigation of the pictures, which took three years to complete, opens a rare window into the world of digital detectives who specialize in tracing some of the world's most horrific imagery.

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iFixit iPhone 7 Plus teardown reveals what’s inside Apple’s phone with no headphone jack

Apple’s latest iPhones look a lot like their predecessors, in terms of design. But the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have a few distinctive new features, including waterproof cases, a touch-sensitive home “button” that’s not a mechanical button anymore, and a single port that’s now used for connecting power, headphones, or anything else.

But it’s what’s inside that counts, right? Apple doesn’t typically recommend opening up the cases for its smartphones, but the folks at iFixit have posted a teardown guide for the iPhone 7 Plus.

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4.5G: Vodafone bietet hohe Datenraten in mehr Städten an

Vodafone bietet höhere Datenraten in seinem LTE-Netz. Doch das, was der Netzbetreiber hier 4.5G nennt, ist es noch nicht. (Vodafone, Huawei)

Verizon Wireless data meter accuracy questioned after $9,100 bill

Verizon waived bill after bad publicity, but many other users report problems.

Verizon Wireless is facing questions about the accuracy of its data meter after a series of newspaper stories on customers who were charged big overage fees after unexplained data usage increases.

The Plain Dealer of Cleveland on Wednesday detailed a $9,100 bill charged to a customer named Valarie Gerbus. “For months, the mother of two from suburban Tampa paid $118 a month for her cellphone package that included 4 gigabytes of data, which she says she never exceeded,” the article said. “That changed last month when Verizon charged her with using an eye-gouging 569 gigabytes for a whopping $8,535.”

Verizon added $600 to the bill when she dropped her plan. Gerbus refused to pay and asked Verizon “repeatedly” to explain how her bill soared, but she got no answer, the article said. "I told them that I won't pay the bill,'' Gerbus said to the Plain Dealer. "I can either wait until they take it to a collection agency or when they take it to court. Either way, my credit history will be ruined. I can go bankrupt here.''

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Sammelklage: US-Amerikanerin verklagt smarten Vibratorhersteller

Ein smarter Vibrator, der nach Hause telefoniert. Damit will sich eine US-Amerikanerin nicht abfinden und verklagt den Hersteller, der offenbar genaue Protokolle über die Nutzung des We-Vibe anlegt. (Datenschutz, Internet)

Nextcloud Box is an $80 private cloud server kit with 1TB of storage (just add a Raspberry Pi)

Cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive make it easy to store your files online and access them across a range of devices. But if you don’t want to give Google or Dropbox that much control over your data, you can also set up your own “private cloud” by installing OwnCloud or Nextcloud software on a server.

Too complicated? Now there’s a simpler way: The Nextcloud Box is an $80 private server-in-a-box.

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Too complicated? Now there’s a simpler way: The Nextcloud Box is an $80 private server-in-a-box.

Continue reading Nextcloud Box is an $80 private cloud server kit with 1TB of storage (just add a Raspberry Pi) at Liliputing.

M-net: G.fast-Technik funktioniert gut beim Netzbetreiber

Ein Netzbetreiber fängt mit G.fast im deutschen Festnetz an, um den Kunden 1 GBit/s aufgeteilt in Down- und Upload liefern zu können. Als Endgerät soll die Fritzbox 7582 zum Einsatz kommen. (G.fast, DSL)

Gigafactory: Tesla baut Riesenakku für das kalifornische Stromnetz

Großauftrag für Teslas Gigafactory: Die Akkufabrik baut einen Netzspeicher, der Lastspitzen ausgleichen soll. Der Akku speichert genug Strom für 1.000 Elektroautos. (Tesla Motors, Technologie)