Firewalls: RE: modems and accessing the internal network

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Subject:	RE: modems and accessing the internal network
From:	jim @ SmallWorks . COM (Jim Thompson)
Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:20:27 -0600
To:	firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, jon @ ctasim . com, raf @ ezunx . com

>Modems are too easily attacked, protected or not, and if the
>connection is on the outside, then all the better.

I don't get it (again?).   Modems are no more easily attacked than an
IP connection.  Both can be very unsecure.  Both can be very hard to
actually sneak anything though.

Jim

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