David: There are lot of us here in NoVA that have worked pretty hard to have access to land records on-line so we were not constrained to the limitations all the record rooms seem to be experiencing- the over crowding, lack of available equipment, having to go from one building to another, broken printers, etc, etc. I read these posts all the time on here about the dis-repair of the respective clerk's offices. As an online subscriber to the 4 counties I work in- I no long experience any of those limitations- I can get the work done, on-time and accurately too. ( and I had the same problems that others have now with the counties I now have access to)

The security of the sites is far outside my expertise, I have requested information from the respective clerks as to access and security.I do know that for a long time our biggest, and least expensive as far as online fees, used to require a static IP , screen name and password in order to just get in- that cost an extra $50 a month from Comcast to get the IP, but other counties did not require it, nor did the state security over view of state wide online systems require a static IP either, so they dropped it.I did inquire as to citizenship requirements that they ask for on the applications, but was informed that being a US citizen was Not a requirement- that would put one more layer of limitation into the systems, I will make that suggestion to the clerks here.

I can not imagine having to go back into those record rooms again and have to deal with all those "problems" that we had to deal with back then. All the data management and documentation control that I presently have would be thrown out and I would be back to the old mobile office that I had over 10 years years ago, it was just a stepping stone on the way to where we are now.

I believe that the respective local clerks are going to continue to advance their offices by offering the information in the most advanced methods they can- saves money for them not to have all that room, equipment and problem of all of us bothering them with all the complaints that used to occur when we were in the record rooms. If you want to do something to promote additional security or limit access maybe that would be the more productive avenue rather than killing the entire project of online systems-the respective clerks are presently charging an additional "technology fee" to fund this type of this , each document presented has  $5.00 fee added just for this use, in addition to all we pay for our subscriptions to the secure sites they maintain.

On another thought, maybe we should try to send a message to those great "American" companies that are making their take home pay bigger by offering the opportunity to undermine our profession by requiring title work to be performed by outsourced groups- always bothers me when they take the smallest number on a HUD-1 and want to "cut it" to save money. Not their money, that's for sure.