Re boycotting AT&T: Eric's proposal is great (cancel your AT&T long distance anyway) but I would suggest a more aggressive approach toward AT&T business telephone systems and consumer phone products. First of all, their equipment is mediocre at best. Their main business phone product, Merlin, is obsolete and truly nasty (details on request); System 75 (mid-sized PBX) is little better; their low-end key system (AT&T Spirit) is cheapy stuff, and although their Partner system is decent there are a number of better alternatives (Panasonic KXT-Hybrid is our favorite though if you want made in USA there's Comdial). AT&T have been pursuing an aggressive policy on initial pricing to try to kill off independent phone contractors, but their service doesn't measure up: expensive rates, delays, etc. So even if they drop their price by half on something to try to edge out a competitor, don't take the bait. Second, you can bet that they'll start introducing Tapper in their cordless phones pretty quickly, to try to win a market advantage based on having any kind of encryption at all. There are some cordless business phones available (one is designed for Merlin) and some new ones coming out soon. These will probably have Tapper in them. Ericsson have a cordless business phone system now, called FreeSet, which is essentially micro-cellular, and it uses a stronger European crypto standard if I'm not mistaken (I can go look up details if anyone wants to know). North Supply Premier is another version of same with some other encryption routine (ANYthing is better than Tapper at the moment) though not as adaptable as the Ericsson FreeSet system. For every AT&T phone set or system, there are plenty of better alternatives, and the time to start shifting your purchasing power is now. (oh BTW to clarify, what I meant by "new ones coming out soon" is that AT&T will probably try to jump on the Ericsson & North Premier bandwagon soon with their own version, with Tapper. "AT&T: phones with Big Brother Built Inside!" -gg