From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article   
   , danny burstein wrote:   
      
   >NOTE: About a year ago NYC made a _major_ change in the franchise   
   >arrangement, and these kiosks are transitioning into WiFi bases   
   >to cover the area down the block from them [a] (and the apartment   
   >windows across the street...).   
      
   Yeah, the Risks Digest (news://comp.risk/) which is the Digest of the   
   ACM Forum on Risks to The Public in Computers and Related Systems has   
   had a couple of stories on that - these are two of the latest I see.   
      
   Risks 29.35   
     Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:29:49 -0700   
     From: Lauren Weinstein    
     Subject: City's Public Wi-Fi Raises Privacy Concerns (NYCLU)   
      
   Risks 29.39   
     Date: March 22, 2016 at 5:43:13 PM EDT   
     From: Hendricks Dewayne    
     Subject: New York has just opened a massive public spying network   
       (Kirsty Styles)   
      
   There have been numerous stories about the telco wanting to get rid of   
   the expense of maintaining the POTS, verses views that the cell phone   
   network fails in emergency situations, such as the hurricanes a while   
   ago.   
      
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