>They are however the one point of authenticated and payment-based contact between all Internet users and the greater cloud. Yeah but we need to diminish their

>They are however the one point of authenticated and payment-based contact between all Internet users and the greater cloud. Yeah but we need to diminish their contact with authentication and payments. They have little to no understanding of security. Like you might be thinking "Oh just have comcast do this" and they could probably cobble something together with only a massive data breach once in every 5 years. But think about all the guys in the sticks dealing with Joe Blogs Wisporium or Texas Petes flying internoobs. These solo operators often cant work out telephony or iptv. Having them middleman payments for an extra tax or service is a huge extra risk. I am not even super comfortable with them holding PII or Credity cards as it stands.