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The dire warning, comes in because most of the modems that are involved are old and don't have adequate security on them. To upgrade those modems would be and difficult and expensive challenge at best. VPN access is much quicker, much cheaper and much more secure. So the decision was made for our client’s best economic best interest just to turn off the modems and go with VPN access. 

 

I was simply pointing out with the current modems what the problems are and why we made the decision to turn off modem access. I was not saying that all modems are totally insecure. 

 

Secondly, see my answer to BobSanderson, we still need to concern ourselves with what happens once the 3rd party is in the system and what do they do with the data once it is out.