MICT Considering Smart Card ID for Internet Access

[lomatopo]

Elsewhere, in the MICT, the Ministry of internet censorship in Thailand as it is commonly called, bureaucrats are eager to please their new military bosses pushing forward plans for a single international internet gateway run by, hardly surprisingly, CAT and TOT so as to make monitoring and censorship easier.

This plan, in fairness, started before the coup, but has found a second wind since.

Sources have confirmed rumours that the MICT is at least in the vendor consultation phase of a total lock-down of the domestic internet. Under the plan, every Thai citizen will need to authenticate an internet log-on session with a smart ID card.

Earlier reports said that every citizen will have at most 6 IP addresses allocated at any one time. Asked how foreigners can access the internet, the permanent secretary answered, “I have not thought of that yet,” one vendor said.

The MICT is also pursuing the Chinese playbook and is working on what is often referred to as a Thai Facebook that would allow for easier identification of perpetrators who dare to not be happy, though plans for that seem less well developed as of now.

http://www.telecomasia.net/blog/content/thai-junta-holding-mother-all-garage-sales

[Tywais]

If the point is to kick out or cripple international companies I guess that is one way to go about it.

[Chicog]

No more Interweb for tourists then.

[muratremix]

It is not april 1st, is it?

Perhaps in buddhist calendar?

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