The Clinton administration is artificially forcing the usa/world to adopt the Clipper Chip as the standard for data/voice encryption, by using us government funded economies of scale to create a large pool of cheap devices that would be hard to resist by the communications using/manufacturin g community. In order to stop this obviously undesireable situation from becoming the only option, a similar counter-strategy must be employed to offset the saturation effects of the flood of clipper chips that is to come. How to do it. ------------- 1/ A massive public awareness operation must be started. 2/ A crypographically strong alternative chip must be created. 3/ In the same way that SETI was kept alive by contributions, the creation of this alternative 'Zipper' chip must be funded by the public, and then manufactured in the millions, to take the same advantage of economies of scale that the clipper will. 4/ The zipper chip should then be distributed and publicized to completely discredit the clipper chip. This is a very simplified outline of the kind of plan that needs to be implemented. If we are going to save privacy for everyone, economic warfare tactics must be used to counter the warfare that is being waged against us all. PC based phone scrambling systems will not have the necessary impact that will be needed to kill the clipper chip and all of the nefarious uses it can and will be put to. We must provide a strong, backdoorless, alternative chip that will be attractive to every telephone user and communications device manufacturer, who will reason that it is better to have a device that no one can tap than it is to have a device that even _one_ person can tap. This situation _can_ be turned around.