WIRETAP: boycotts
Nick Szabo
szabo at techbook.com
Thu Apr 22 16:27:48 PDT 1993
Agreed, not much economic pressure would come from directly boycotting
Clipper phones, or for that matter from people boycotting AT&T for
ideological reasons. Rather, it would come from AT&T getting a reputation
as putting the U.S. government's needs before the needs of their customers;
and not caring very much about the privacy of their customers' phone
calls. What international business, law firm, etc. wants to trust
their communications to a company that puts NSA wiretap chips in their
phones and touts them as "secure"? A good outcome here is for this fiasco
to get wide publicity, and for Sprint, MCI, etc. to subtly use doubts about
AT&T's concern for privacy in their ad campaigns.
A recent cypherpunks post refferred to a conversation with an AT&T
marketing type, who kept insisting that AT&T is very concerned about
customer privacy, it's a high priority, etc. AT&T knows they need a
good reputation for privacy. Keep up the pressure!
Nick Szabo szabo at techbook.com
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