The exposure of investigation information from a senior policeman's private personal computer highlights the fact that police countermeasures against such a risk have stayed one step behind the problem, which is caused by computer viruses affecting Winny file-swapping software.
As many police officers still copy confidential information onto their private PCs as reference data for work, the police are being pressed to review the way such information is controlled.
On Wednesday, when information emanating from a private PC owned by a 26-year-old senior policeman of Kitazawa Police Station was found to have been compromised, the Metropolitan Police Department held a meeting to discuss the problem.
Seems some of the japanese police are using winny to swap files aswell ... lmao.
But if they are using it for police work is another story ..
look here for more of the Story.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070615TDY03004.htm
