(B)eginning next year, city officials said on Monday, the relics will evolve into something deemed far more practical: thousands of Wi-Fi hot spots across the city, providing free Internet access, free domestic calls using cellphones or a built-in keypad, a charging station for mobile devices and access to city services and directions.Seems like a decent idea (I had a similar one years ago to install paid WiFi hotspots in ATM kiosks only Starbucks, Barmes and Noble, etc. all switched from paid to free hotspots so that kind of blew my idea out of the water.)
Wired - U.S. Gov Insists It Doesn’t Stockpile Zero-Day Exploits to Hack Enemies -
Of course it doesn't. It stockpiles them to use on it's citizens. Just Kidding:
In a new interview about the government’s zero-day policy, Michael Daniel, National Security Council cybersecurity coordinator and special adviser to the president on cybersecurity issues, insists to WIRED that the government doesn’t stockpile large numbers of zero days for use.
“[T]here’s often this image that the government has spent a lot of time and effort to discover vulnerabilities that we’ve stockpiled in huge numbers … The reality is just not nearly as stark or as interesting as that,” he says.TLDR: It's more in the governments interest to find or purchase and disclose MOST vulnerabilities so they can't be used against us than it is to save them for use against others. Note the word most.
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