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Posted
35 minutes ago, Pedrogaz said:

Will you be able to get around the firewall with a VPN? 

certainly

if not, it will be the end of business in Thailand.

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Posted
1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

This… just this…  a wholly accurate comment by the author of the article highlighting Thailand’s draconian freedom of speech laws & the government continued attempts to control criticism & remove free opinion. 
 

Like China and other nations which choke basic human freedoms, Thailands approach to these issues are simply backwards. 

this is what it is about

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Posted
5 hours ago, Hayduke said:

Wonder where they might be able to find a monolithic, aggressive, immoral, unethical, repressive, totalitarian police state to help out….

Just across the border?

Posted
5 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The generals are in fight mode and pulling out all the stops to curb free speech and access to every persons right to information available. This is not looking good. Amnesty International, Thailand, also getting kicked out last I heard.

Well, as you can see in all dictatorships......so no surprise at all. They should ask China how to do. Easy as that.

I personally would not live here.????

Posted
5 minutes ago, dogfish180 said:

Don't these luddites know how a VPN works? A child could navigate past their Gateway! They really are out of touch with reality.

Any government gateway can break the encryption of a VPN, so not really helpful. Ask the Chinese. All government agencies have "agents" on VPNs. It's only useful to have a different IP address to "fake" your location.

 

That's what VPN are built for, an extension of an IP network you can join without being part of the local network, by "faking" or "tunneling" the network protocol.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, GrandPapillon said:

Any government gateway can break the encryption of a VPN, so not really helpful. Ask the Chinese. All government agencies have "agents" on VPNs. It's only useful to have a different IP address to "fake" your location.

 

That's what VPN are built for, an extension of an IP network you can join without being part of the local network, by "faking" or "tunneling" the network protocol.

you are wrong (or partially right) - government have "agents" and/or can break encryption of public VPN services only, which handed the encryption keys to those governments. If you properly setup your own VPN server then no one would be able to break it. (except NSA ofcourse :D )

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Posted
8 minutes ago, ardsong said:

quote If you properly setup your own VPN server then no one would be able to break it. unquote

indeed, sofar there is not one report of breaking a good encryption algorithme!. Where governments get to encrypted messages is through backdoors, (secretly) handed over encryption keys, or using other intrusive methods to capture a message before it is encrypted on your computer/phone or after is has been delivered  and decrypted and the receiver of encrypted message is not handling it secure.

My advice is:

-to stay away from American software and hardware products, as all have a backdoor from NSA.CIA etc, notwithstanding their promisses of not, they are all subpoena-ed to tell it!

-to stay away from proprietary software but use only OpenSourceSoftware, where the possibility of build-in backdoors is minimizes as the code is open to check for these leaks. e.g. not use Windows , but any Linus distro, use Tor-Browser and Tails as your operating system.

-to use good reliable VPN services, again not any american VPN services, but I would suggest Suisse or German are thought to be the most thrustworthy

-use E2EE (end to end encryption) for sensitive messages, from reliable providers, e.g. Session, Protonmail,

-use your common sense to stay safe as much as possible.

 

and than (maybe) you can stay private.

Hopefully it doesn't get to that.

 

Even the juntas most ardent supporters wouldn't like to be spied on.

 

What a paranoid government.

 

 

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Posted
8 hours ago, webfact said:

to install a national internet gateway in Thailand to control and restrict access to external online content as an issue of national security.

Breathing space for us across the border!

Reference (15th February 2022)

 

"Cambodia is delaying an internet gateway that had raised concerns around privacy and free speech, halting its planned mid-week implementation due to Covid-19 related disruptions, a government official said Tuesday"

"The gateway, due to come into effect February 16, appeared to be taking Cambodia down a path beaten by Phnom Pehn's major economic partner China -- which keeps the online world behind a "Great Firewall" 

 

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220215-cambodia-delays-controversial-internet-gateway

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Posted
1 hour ago, Purdey said:

It isn't that easy to read millions of mails and chats daily. 

They will be looking for key words such as Cha Cha is a <deleted>. That phrase will be repeated millions of times every day!

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