https://cryptome.org/2016/06/linknyc-spy-kiosks-installation-videos.htm At least with payphones you didn't give up much privacy in a time when even voiceprinting by spies would be a challenge. These are vastly different. They do look new and shiny though, certainly very secure... "I do it for one reason and one reason only. I'm learning about a system. The phone company is a System. A computer is a System, do you understand? If I do what I do, it is only to explore a system. Computers, systems, that's my bag. The phone company is nothing but a computer."