[LINK] Router "firewall" security, NBN QC, etc

[David Lochrin]

On Friday 02 June 2017 at 13:27 Kim Holburn wrote:

> It's bad security practise for your border router to house your phone service or be a wifi AP.  Just saying.

I agree, but that's not ~necessarily~ the case, it depends on the quality of the implementation(s).  Price & complexity is also an issue because the average citizen isn't going to want separate ATA (analogue telephone adapter), router, and WiFi boxes.

But I think the biggest problem is that the reliability & operational quality of the national communications infrastructure is now dependent on all sorts of termination boxes of varying quality & integrity (except perhaps for FTTP installations).  If the XYZ VoIP implementation always sounds "warbly" because the chipset is under-powered, or breaks up because QoS control is poor or non-existent, or contains malware the whole network suffers.

David L.