Because the FCC has been slow to provide adequate spectrum for unlicensed broadband applications like Wi-Fi, growing numbers of software-savvy citizens are poised to adapt off-the-shelf Wi-Fi equipment to operate on the largely vacant, licensed bands adjacent to the crowded unlicensed frequencies. According to Scott Rafer, author of the provocative FCCster.com web site, unless the FCC acts quickly to provide more unlicensed spectrum for citizen access, the coming era of software defined radios will subvert the paradigm by which our airwaves are regulated and controlled. Is this vision just hype, or has the revolution begun ? Will the military's emerging XG software defined radio lead the way or will it be a Kazaa-like company beyond the reach of the feds? Will the key enabling technology be Linksys' frequency agile routers, Intel's next-generation, smart radio technology embedded into its microprocessors, or some pirate smart radio chip smuggled in to this country like cocaine?