LAST Friday's raid on seven Internet service providers by the Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB), left me angry and worried.
Being one of those suddenly kicked off the information highway, I have been tracking every Internet-related issue appearing in the press.
It has been reported that investigations were still being processed by the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), concerning the licensing of the existing unlicensed service providers.
It was confirmed by OFTA that a number of the providers had been working closely with it and these providers were never warned that there was any threat to their unlicensed businesses. However, the sudden raid cut off all Internet access in Hong Kong except for the only licensed provider, the Hong Kong Supernet.
I was astonished by the two naive reasons the CCB officers gave for carrying out the raids.
One CCB spokesman said the unlicensed service providers had been involved in computer hacking, which revealed that spokesman's ignorance.