使4億 幫警察買USB手指！

我哋既特區警察，由於差館啲電腦裝咗foxy或其他點對點軟件又或其他原因，不斷咁意外將重要資料外洩上載到互聯網。於是乎，為咗竭止呢個情況，聰明既特區警察諗到一條絕世好橋，就係申請立法會撥款4億，幫全港警察買加密USB手指，同埋建立遙距登入數據庫系統（remote access system to database）

吓，以為加密USB手指就可以解決問題？

原來陳冠希淫照外洩，並非因為佢同女朋友們貪得意拍低短片，而係「無用到加密USB手指」！

因為警察唔安全使用電腦同互聯網就要使成4億？叫警察去上個啲咩「做個智NET的」好過啦，見到張稅單就眼火爆！

當年精彩語錄重温

記者：互聯網每一日均有很多非藝人受害人，不知原由被人將相片放上網，或女事主在不知情下被拍攝再放上網，警方會否採取行動？

黃福全：據我做了20多年警察，我不覺得這是一個普遍的行為。

今日SCMP頭條

Police go virtual to plug file leaks
Phyllis Tsang
2010-01-05

Force’s HK$400m plan for secure data access

The Hong Kong Police Force aims to set up a secure network for remote access to its database to stop officers inadvertently leaking data onto the internet. It will ask lawmakers to approve funding for the system, which is projected to cost HK$400 million.

A union representing police inspectors questioned the project’s cost-effectiveness and feared it would become a white elephant. It said officers do not have enough laptop computers and encrypted USB storage devices to work with. A police spokeswoman said the force was buying more.

The virtual-workstation infrastructure would allow all 27,000 officers to access the database away from police stations. The force will submit its funding proposal to the Legislative Council soon.

It is confident computer hackers would not be able to penetrate the system. Users would be required to key in passwords and get through several security gateways to gain access to the central database, officers say.

“Police officers will have different access rights to the database according to their posts,” an officer said. “The downloading and printing of documents will be prohibited.”

The force is seeking a long-term solution to internet security, including the use of home computers. In its review of data leaks, it examined a similar virtual-workstation network that Cathay Pacific uses for its aircrew to access company information when outside Hong Kong.

The review was prompted by a series of leaks of police data via the Foxy file-sharing program, which shares files on users’ computers with other users unless disabled. The latest occurred last month, when the personal details of officers and suspects involved in an undercover operation were exposed. Twenty-one officers have been disciplined over 26 leaks since April.

Tony Liu Kit-ming, chairman of the Police Inspectors’ Association, said the virtual workstation could enhance data security, but expressed concerns about hacking.

“The force should be aware of the cost-effectiveness of this system so as to avoid it becoming a big white elephant, as technology changes so rapidly every few years. The pressing problem is that front-line officers are not provided with enough laptops and USB thumb drives,” he said.

Not all constables are given encrypted USB thumb drives, although they are issued to all officers of inspector rank and above. The force has issued about 14,300 desktop computers, 1,240 laptops and 5,300 encrypted thumb drives to staff for official use. The spokeswoman said it was planning to buy more desktop computers, and was in the process of acquiring 700 laptops and 2,000 encrypted USB thumb drives.

Officers who were taking police information out of work premises must comply with the force’s orders and procedures, she said.

On the projected HK$400 million cost, Lucas Hui Chi-kwong, director of the Centre for Information Security and Cryptography at the University of Hong Kong, said: “The cost of setting up such an information security infrastructure [in other organisations] has been linked with the level of sensitivity and security of the database involved. The proposed system can probably help to eliminate the risk of data leaks as all the officers are confined to using a single system, but the police should also enhance staff awareness of information security and data management.”