iPhone 7 preorders could start September 9 - CNET

The date has been forecast by known leaker Evan Blass, who also has said the new phone will launch September 16.

Hacking the unhackable

According to Pen Test Partners researcher David Lodge, eyeDisk's “unhackable” claims fall short as he was able to bypass the device's security measures fairly quickly after obtaining one for himself.
Lodge began his tests on the device by plugging it into a Windows VM where the USB drive appeared as a USB camera, a read-only flash volume and a removable media volume.
First he tested the eyeDisk's iris scanner to see if it could be used to consistently unlock the device and this feature worked as advertised roughly two out of three times. Then Lodge tried to fool the device by using a picture of his child (who has a similar iris scan) to unlock it and once again, the device performed as intended.
However, when the researcher began to examine eyeDisk's software and hardware setup, the real problems emerged since the device is essentially “a USB stick with a hub and camera attached.” The contents stored on the eyeDisk drive are unlocked when the authenticator element passes a password along to the controlling software.
Lodge used the open-source packet analyzer, Wireshark to see if he could sniff out the USB packets being sent from the device. It was then when he realized that the “unhackable” device unlocks by sending these passwords in clear text. This means that its possible to obtain the password/hash in clear text simply by sniffing the USB traffic sent from the eyeDisk.
Pen Test Partners reached out to the eyeDisk team and the firm provided the full details of the security problems discovered to the manufacturer who says they're working on a fix for the problem. However, the real lesson here is that using the term “unhackable” is just an open invitation to hackers that businesses would be best to avoid using in the future.

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Carriers, 5G, and the unknown

But the data flow coming to the APIs requires some coordination with carriers, who must agree to pass along this info to developers. Google is still negotiating with carriers to grant this access – not, we understand, because they want to withhold this information, but because they haven’t had a strong motivation to do so.
Understandably, users won’t see these 5G features for awhile – especially since the 5G networks themselves have only just started launching in very small areas. The US saw its first network go live in April, and we found it to have erratic coverage in a small area with sometimes-high speeds.
US carriers have claimed their networks will start going live and expanding throughout 2019, but we’ll wait to see how much speed and coverage they deliver – and how much they’ll cost. Verizon initially charged $10 extra to access its 5G network, though they’re waiving that cost for now, presumably to encourage adoption (and offset the price of 5G-capable phones).
The other question: what kinds of data caps users will have, and how much they’ll have to pay for them. These factors could seriously impact how developers implement these 5G APIs – will they need to limit the size of their assets anyway to make sure users don’t consume too much data, or will users just end up buying bigger data caps?
Those unknowns will affect how developers build apps harnessing 5G connectivity, from back-end prioritization to giving users toggle options for controlling their data consumption. But until we know how these networks will function, and how carriers will implement 5G and make it usable to consumers, it’s unclear how developers will harness these Android Q features.

Speaking of Google IO 2019, here's our review of the Google Pixel 3a announced at the show

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