Wanting something and expecting it from public companies like the phone company and Microsoft are different things, however. I think almost anyone on the street knows about phone taps from TV and movies for example, so there's almost no one who thinks your phone can't be tapped. I don't really follow this writer's claim that all the stuff built on top and later somehow magically becomes private. Nor that there will be mass consumer adoption of some solution that avoids possible tapping at the cost of other things, such as network size and price. If you went door to door asking people to pay twice their phone bill for an untappable phone, how many do you think would say yes? I think not many. The writer claims many.