Thai Police Create Facebook Entrapments

[EBlair48]

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http://www.prachatai.com/english/node/4140

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Thai police allegedly created fake applications to access the Thai Internet users’ personal information on Facebook if the users try to access blocked websites, Thai Netizen Network reported on Thursday.

When users try to access a blocked websites, they are sometimes redirected to a landing page called “tcsd.info.” The web page would delude the users to get to a suspicious application on Facebook called “Login.” If users consented to the app, the users’ accounts were compromised.

[ukrules]

I've clicked various links on twitter which have been blocked, they usually turn out to be daily mail pages by the looks of it.

The first I know about it is when I get the 'blocked page' in Thai.

Whoever operates the blocked page will already have the IP address of the person visiting it anyway. They might not know which page you attempted to access but they will know you attempted to access something which has been blocked.

Of course they will get hundreds of thousands if not more of these logged every day. It's a 'needle in a haystack' type situation.

[farang000999]

A very reliable source.

[Tywais]

1 flame, some troll posts and replies to them removed.

[EBlair48]

In late May, Pol Maj Gen Pisit Paoin, head of the junta-appointed working group responsible for censoring the internet, told Thai media that the Ministry plans to spy on popular social media and chat applications in order to identify and arrest people who spread illegal content.

“We’ll send you a friend request. If you accept the friend request, we’ll see if anyone disseminates information which violates the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) orders,” the police said. “Be careful, we’ll soon be your friend.”