Massive internet surveillance to begin Monday, report claims

[davejonesbkk]

Anyone else see this on Coconuts?

http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/09/11/massive-internet-surveillance-begin-monday-report-claims

so should I break out my tin foil hat or not?

Can any engineers comment on this?

[Chicog]

If I had to guess I'd say they've got round to implementing this, but just by looking at this post you'll get into trouble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems

[bartender100]

I heard the Jet-Ski boys on Pattaya beach watch porn while they are waiting to scam tourists, maybe they should start there

[Somtamnication]

They have been doing that since Thaksin. Why do you think there is a huge data bottleneck going through Bangkok?

[jacky54]

Using an unspecified "surveillance device" to look for creators and consumers of "illegal content,"

​what ever could it be? certainly not a Thai device, if they want it to work that is

[bartender100]

Be careful they are looking for Daily Mail readers

[jacky54]

Be careful they are looking for Daily Mail readers

Not blocked on android anyway, have to wait five years for them to learn how to do it!

[ezzra]

So... not to post pictures of me in the buff yet, or wait for better days?

[ToddinChonburi]

NO NUDE PHOTS !!!!!

[Chicog]

So... not to post pictures of me in the buff yet, or wait for better days?

Don't worry, your iphone's probably already done it.

[RKASA]

"surveillance device" I hope they didn't buy it from the same guy that makes bomb sniffers.

edit: or maybe I do

Edited September 13, 2014 by RKASA

[muratremix]

Can they decrypt openvpn tunnels?

It seems unlikely but?

[keemapoot]

I've seen the effects already. About a week ago, I started to see some changes in the Hola free in-Chrome extension VPN, which was working pretty well. Now, it seems that most sites are blocked, even using Hola, so they have been doing some work.

[Globeman]

They have been doing that since Thaksin. Why do you think there is a huge data bottleneck going through Bangkok?

Ummm... because there are 12 million people in Bangkok?

[Somtamnication]

No bottlenecks in Singapore, HK, NY, London, Bangalore...I don't see your point? Population has nothing to do with the bottleneck.

[bartender100]

Seems like the Daily Mail is off the banned list, don't need my VPN anymore to read

[h90]

They have been doing that since Thaksin. Why do you think there is a huge data bottleneck going through Bangkok?

yes big Thaksin project....can come what government non has a sense for freedom....Actually the same in Europe, where they now also block things

[petedk]

Seems like the Daily Mail is off the banned list, don't need my VPN anymore to read

Still blocked for me. Using True cable.

[petedk]

Actually, I feel as if I am in Europe 30 years ago regarding internet. I hardly bother to log on nowadays because of the speed and unavailability of many websites.

Webpages take 3 or 4 minutes to load.

More and more sites are blocked.

Yesterday, my Live score app stopped working using AIS. Switched to wifi... no problem.

I hate to think about it but when will Thai Visa be blocked?

[muratremix]

Without VPN, download speeds from mediafire is 25kbyte/sec (which was 500-1000 kb/sec before)

With Singapore VPN, it is over 400kbyte/sec

However, it is not because of bw throttling. If they can inspect your packets, they will and this makes it slow (they need some sort of supercomputer to analyze all Thai internet)

When you connect via VPN, I think system realizes it can't inspect so it leaves you alone and your speed is unaffected!

[JohnnyJazz]

I believe people complaining should have been red flagged as political activists.

My home has a very stardard True connection. There are between three to five computers connected at any given moment plus a number of phones and tablets and without being lightning fast the connection speed remains fairly decent 99% of the time.

[muratremix]

I believe people complaining should have been red flagged as political activists.

My home has a very stardard True connection. There are between three to five computers connected at any given moment plus a number of phones and tablets and without being lightning fast the connection speed remains fairly decent 99% of the time.

I don't share anything about Thailand so your assumptions are wrong.

However, I live in a Thai populated area (Perhaps 5-10 farang in my area total) so they could be monitoring Thais and I'm the victim of their underpowered packet inspection servers.