US officials’ alert leads to arrest of Thai photographer on child porn

[snoop1130]

 

Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) officers arrested a Thai photographer at his home in the central province of Samut Sakhon on Saturday for possession of child pornography.

 

The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), based in the US, reached out to the Thailand Internet Crimes Against Children Unit after discovering child pornography on a cloud storage account belonging to the Thai man, later identified as 28 year old Kraisorn.

 

CCIB officers conducted a further investigation into the case and gathered all evidence before issuing an arrest warrant for Kraisorn. His arrest was subsequently made on Saturday, August 30, at his home in the Aom Noi district of Samut Sakhon. Police then seized his mobile phone and an external hard disk where he stored the illegal child pornography.

 

CCIB officers investigated Kraisorn’s mobile phone and found that he was a member of a child pornography group on an application for group communication called Band. More than 4,000 files of child pornography were found on the hard disk.

 

 

 

 

Kraisorn revealed that he was a freelance photographer offering photoshoot services for the cosplay community, not nude photoshoots or child pornography production. Kraisorn admitted that he liked child pornography but insisted he never sold it. He kept the explicit videos only for himself.

 

Kraisorn was charged under Section 287/1 of the Criminal Law: possession of child pornography. The penalty is imprisonment of up to seven years, a fine of up to 140,000 baht, or both.

 

Police will conduct more investigations into Kraisorn’s claims. He will face more charges if he is found to have been selling pornography or tricking any minors into pornography production.

 

By Petch Petpailin

Photo via PPTV HD

 

Source: The Thaiger

2024-09-02

 

 

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[NativeBob]

Ooopsie! US Police can easily scan your cloud storage. 

Thanks for a warning.

 

[WHansen]

3 hours ago, NativeBob said:

Ooopsie! US Police can easily scan your cloud storage. 

Thanks for a warning.

 

A similar comment from myself was about to be posted.

[NativeBob]

34 minutes ago, WHansen said:

A similar comment from myself was about to be posted.

When Snowden drew a diagram (on table napkin) how (mine, yours, our) data is vulnerable in the "cloud" I thought it was another "propaganda for his Russian masters". 

How wrong was I!

 

Now it is shamelessly openly reported. 

How cute.

 

PS: Will build my very own 256-key encrypted cloud and let them sniff their own butts.

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

4 hours ago, NativeBob said:

Ooopsie! US Police can easily scan your cloud storage. 

Thanks for a warning.

 

Sounds like he shared a link to his own storage amongst fellow pedos and somehow got ratted out.  NCMEC is a non-profit. 

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

"Kraisorn revealed that he was a freelance photographer offering photoshoot services for the cosplay community,"  The cosplay and furry communities attract pedos like honey attracts bees.  

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, NativeBob said:

Ooopsie! US Police can easily scan your cloud storage. 

Thanks for a warning.

 

I would imagine that US can scan almost anything or everything people do on their phones, in league with the big social media companies selling your data.

[thesetat2013]

13 hours ago, NativeBob said:

Ooopsie! US Police can easily scan your cloud storage. 

Thanks for a warning.

 

Yeah that is worrying in itself. Nothing is private I guess if using a cloud platform. 

 

This Thai man should face some prison and shamed. Watching promotes others to exploitation and creation of such acts. He is just as guilty as they are. 

[Presnock]

57 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

I would imagine that US can scan almost anything or everything people do on their phones, in league with the big social media companies selling your data.

Unless the US laws have changed, US police and other government officials cannot easily scan any private individual's account.  I too realize that this has been done surreptitiously many times but it is still illegal to violate the privacy of citizen's without a court authorization.  However, if on an open social media channel, one sees something that indicates criminal acty, once reported to officials, and authorized by the court, police or other officials can then scan any citizen's acty, private or not.  But if anyone thinks that the US govt or any organization can easily scan EVERYONE's activity, the organization would have to have the populace of CHINA or INDIA to man the ear phones/look at data.  Snowden revealed what was "collected" by the government, but not was "processed" illegally if any.  As for the big social media companies, they are only selling data that one puts on that media freely just as WE do on this forum.  It can be monitored by anyone and people should obviously be aware of that.  Just saying.

 

[simon43]

Anyone who stores confidential data in the Cloud must be as dumb as a bunch of rocks!!

[DaveInSukhumvit]

5 hours ago, simon43 said:

Anyone who stores confidential data in the Cloud must be as dumb as a bunch of rocks!!

With respect, I suspect that nearly every phone is backed up on the cloud.  The same applies to companies, large and small.

From a quick search: Approximately 96% of Fortune 500 companies are utilizing cloud services, according to recent statistics from Microsoft. This high percentage reflects the widespread adoption of cloud computing among large enterprises, indicating a significant shift from traditional on-premises data management to cloud-based solutions.

[NativeBob]

5 hours ago, simon43 said:

Anyone who stores confidential data in the Cloud must be as dumb as a bunch of rocks!!

thank you, it was me.

don't give a <deleted> about that idiot with a camera. CP was sold in China Town for decades. Almost openly. 

But this "cloud thingy" was the last straw. Enough is enough, have to take things in own hands.

Cloud my a**!

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, NativeBob said:

thank you, it was me.

don't give a <deleted> about that idiot with a camera. CP was sold in China Town for decades. Almost openly. 

But this "cloud thingy" was the last straw. Enough is enough, have to take things in own hands.

Cloud my a**!

 

    They stopped selling Child porn openly in Thailand over ten years ago 

[Seppius]

5 hours ago, simon43 said:

Anyone who stores confidential data in the Cloud must be as dumb as a bunch of rocks!!

Or uses a mobile device for illegal purposes

[spidermike007]

Considering how sensitive things are these days and considering how overzealous the authorities are, it would seem downright foolish to store any sort of porn on your phone, and to a far greater degree any sort of child porn. That just seems like you're asking for trouble. Especially if those images or videos are uploaded to the cloud. The cloud is just an open book, and my guess is that there are countless intelligence agencies that share that information if they suspect somebody, or even based on random searches. 

 

My guess is that the same applies with any messenger apps, or email. One must be very careful with communication these days. 

[Cereal]

On 9/3/2024 at 12:49 PM, DaveInSukhumvit said:

With respect, I suspect that nearly every phone is backed up on the cloud.  The same applies to companies, large and small.

From a quick search: Approximately 96% of Fortune 500 companies are utilizing cloud services, according to recent statistics from Microsoft. This high percentage reflects the widespread adoption of cloud computing among large enterprises, indicating a significant shift from traditional on-premises data management to cloud-based solutions.

I eliminated the cloud from my computer thanks to the IT guy at work. Nothing I have goes anywhere near there. I never trusted it.