Recently bought Fujitsu lifebook A555.
Oh my gosh, good "old feeling" bulky and thick laptop with nice "old style" keyboard, removable battery, easily accessible RAM, HDD, minipcie slots (just few screws and lids for each) and decent up to date CPU/mobo.
Inside this replaceable battery very likely those 18650. They are not supposed to be serviceable, but if you really want to take all risks...

They hacked software tokens. Use of software token on insecure OS/hardware is same bad as storing your passwords in passwords.txt

Good reason to read it again :)

Yes for sure, here it is: http://some.private.site.at.ap...

Interesting how it will perform on it :)

Why not, but for a price of new XS (or almost). I guess they brought this program to counter Louis Rossmann https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

Main concern that this batteries should not have apple trademarked logos and names. Louis suppliers should take care about scrapping off or covering that marks and names.
Because if batteries will start exploding, it will have impact on Apple reputation, and they will have to spend lot of PR money fixing that.
And the refurbished batteries from China are most likely to fail with the fireworks, as grey market manufacturers squeeze the last drops from the lithium elements, setting crazy values in the controller. Also, this elements might be "rejects"(didn't passed Q&C) from various manufacturers, including those who make batteries for Apple.

Good point, possible.
At the same time, you can blame for same any person who often repost the news.
It smells bad and creates a conditions for action resembling repressive regime of Stalin.
Proverb associated with such logic: "If there is a man, there is always a criminal article for him"

As native russian speaker, just in first lines directly i see posts have nothing to do with "farms". For example, f9dded769bb2275fc6531c1b4d10cf05272c48806fbd73265ef318fac0a22962 is just reposting _in russian language_ russian (Kirov) city news. Most likely just some kind of automated bot, reposting newsfeeds from aggregator.
Can't see anything how it makes it "troll farm". And news even, seems, not biased, they reposted news from various websites pro and against government.
I feel i will be considered criminal, by default, just because i'm posting sometimes in russian language

Or older phrase: "Aliis si licet, tibi non licet"
What small players will be mercilessly punished for, the big ones will call “disproportionate effort” and will be forgiven.

It seems you didn't watched video.
His point is simple: Chinese factories removing broken glass, putting new, and shipping back same product(not counterfeit), repaired.
I dont see here any fraud. Only greedy Apple want to fabricate repair as fraud, to deny right to repair, and after that they will be quite happy to put you such repair price, that you will prefer to buy a new phone

I suggest to watch, here voice of well known repair professional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Because it is extremely beneficial for them to put the situation in such a way , so it is easier to introduce new taxes, new draconian measures to restrict the rights to backup copies, to limit the ways of reproduction and etc.
Their greed has no limits

This news reminds me this nice game and endless batteries swapping while on high depth in lava biome.

Horrible or not, unfortunately, Qualcomm acquired many good companies, such as Atheros, who have most consistent Linux-supported wifi card and SoC.
Any downfall of Qualcomm automatically means downfall of these great products.
And, is there any SoC vendor who does give reference SDK, with factory calibration tools, without NDA (and crazy fees)?