Govt orders great firewall of Thailand

[b4n9]

Italian Hacking team was leaked, so many conversation between the team and thai officers.. just check wikileaks and you will se by yourself. bytheway wikileaks is blocked by the great firewall of thailand , but if you use a vpn then you good to go. Do not ever think to connect your emails, banks accounts, etc etc etc without using a vpn, specially in thailand.

[slipperylobster]

banks and financial institution encrypt their pages...so no vpn is necessary..or required.

very impervious to the "man in the middle" attack. The biggest risk involving your online banking is password and private questions.....and sometimes people download risky software that include "keyloggers" that can record and transmit home your typed entries. Onscreen keyboard provided by the bank website are the best way to enter passwords.

Edited September 23, 2015 by slipperylobster

[chilli42]

How many people is this really going to upset? The Engliah literacy rate is minuscule in Thailand. The locals like what they have and they will still get it

[brewsterbudgen]

How many people is this really going to upset? The Engliah literacy rate is minuscule in Thailand. The locals like what they have and they will still get it

You don't think they'll be blocking Thai websites, blogs etc?

[avander]

Another sad day for Thailand.

Our plans to return to Australia in another 3 years are looking even more solid and the subsequent plan to return here permanently a few years later is becoming more & more unlikely.

[erobando]

This info is only new to us and we're only aware of it because of someone read a communique from June.

Hopefully, since then, some people (e.g., business leaders with good relations with the current government) were able to convince the junta that this is not a good idea.

[Broeno]

Thai junta is playing a thoy they know nothing about.

[NOC]

They start blocking the more of the internet, my skinny white butt is out of here!

[ldnguy]

Big Brother will seriously be watching us now .

Surely this would put of investmentment by large foreign companies having slow mail, and possible snooping by the Govt.

It won't put them off at all. They will go anywhere that they can make money. Why should they care about this. Nothing to do with running their business and won't affect it.

[mahtin]

Read the telecomasia blog referenced in the OP before going ballistic.

[ldnguy]

Yes, if any confirmation of our plans to return to live in the UK were needed - well, that's it.

So you don't mind that the UK government will be snooping on you? And you don't mind that the UK government plan to outlaw encrypted messages? Sounds like out of the frying pan and into the fire. Good luck.

[ldnguy]

They start blocking the more of the internet, my skinny white butt is out of here!

Goodbye.

[puukao]

This is NOT your country!!! When in Rome......

Listen my fellow sheep, you get to live for cheap, eat cheap, sunshine all day, and bar girls all day...

what more do you want!!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!

i cannot wait until foreigner bank accounts frozen......condos seized......all for the greater good!!!!

well, not your good!!! but this is not your country....

[balo]

This is just a proposal , the great firewall of Thailand will never happen.

If it did , most of the Thai population would want Thaksin to come back and save them so they can watch porn and facebook on their phones again

This will end up in the drawer together with the rest of the stupid proposals.we've seen coming from Thai officials.

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Edited September 23, 2015 by balo

[Jimmpy]

crazy, real crazy.. but sex sites have been blocked for ages by Thais. This is just more of the same. Anyway people wo sell VPN will make a killing.

What is a VPN?

[fireplay]

This is just a proposal , the great firewall of Thailand will never happen.

If it did , most of the Thai population would want Thaksin to come back and save them so they can watch porn and facebook on their phones again

This will end up in the drawer together with the rest of the stupid proposals.we've seen coming from Thai officials.

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But is it? I notice my internet has been increasingly been interrupted.

[NCC1701A]

This will be good for the Thai stock market.

Airlines.

Banks.

Consumer electronics companies.

telecom companies.

you know unimportant stuff.

can you imagine the first day this "gateway" went down? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

[newnative]

Third World and sinking.

[NCC1701A]

wonder which way the baht will move now?

[Maestro]

Removed a troll post and the replies to it.

[Tywais]

What is a VPN?

I have a pinned topic I wrote a while ago that explains it - Proxies, VPN And Other Information

Some reasons why they can't block VPN carte blanche. 1. Nearly impossible due to the many variables in how they work and tuning that can be done. 2nd and most important is it would cripple nearly every International company with branches in Thailand as they rely upon it for their WAN (wide area network) connectivity to their home office. This includes Thai banks that have branches overseas, possibly forex, possibly stock exchanges.

[dageurreotype]

wonder which way the baht will move now?

One can dream but bearing in mind the increasing insanity hasn't exactly collapsed the damn thing I'm prepared to believe this cockroach of currencies would not only withstand a nuclear war. Which begs the question, once again howwwww?

[Tywais]

crazy, real crazy.. but sex sites have been blocked for ages by Thais. This is just more of the same. Anyway people wo sell VPN will make a killing.

They'll probably ban VPN services if they go this far... it was alluded to in the report.

That report is an editorial piece not based on more than something found in the archives. Also find it to be rumor mongering and highly exaggerated for the report to suggest banning of VPN and encryption. Not possible for economic, business security and many other reasons. All https (SSL) sites would be inaccessible including many e-mail facilities. The concept is just so full of holes.

[Throatwobbler]

Don't worry, the public backlash will be overwhelming.

Even if they push ahead with the laws, the next civilian government can always repeal the laws.

How about changing some of the laws that Thaksin created !

Those laws, it seems, are still having very bad effects on us

Sorry I didn't realize that this was all Thaksin's fault.

Edit I expect to be flamed as a Thaksin apologist now.

Edited September 23, 2015 by Throatwobbler

[Tywais]

Your pinned topic is 5 years old and locked.

I can tell you from first hand experience that early last year I tried the best VPN services in the game - about 5 of them. The most highly rated ones available. Not one of them could successfully hide my IP.

It's still valid information. If it is not hiding your IP then it is a known issue with WebRTC both in FF & Chrome and can be corrected. I tested through the WebRTC website and found it showed my local IP even with either of my VPNs. Made the WebRTC correction in FF and it now shows my remote VPN location correctly. Nothing to do with the government or ISP.

[cyberfarang]

The only good thing that can possibly come from this is that it might finally wake up the Thai people to the type of government they now have, and maybe hasten its demise.

You mean the previous governments were better and what or who gets in next will be better?

[arrowsdawdle]

The only good thing that can possibly come from this is that it might finally wake up the Thai people to the type of government they now have, and maybe hasten its demise.

You mean the previous governments were better and what or who gets in next will be better?

You have the elite junta mindset when you want to qualify what you deem better instead of respecting the will of the population to elect whomever they prefer.

[taony]

Does anyone know whether this will effect ExPat TV? I watch this through the internet and would hate to miss proper news via the BBC! Hopefully, this idea will fail to reach fruition as so many of the dear General's crackpot schemes have!

It means our slow internet is going to be even slower and it probably won't even matter anyway bc they will f it all up and break the damn thing and we'll have no internet at all in a few months.

[CharlieH]

4) You will not not discuss methods of bypassing blocking of websites, or circumventing any censorship of the internet or other communications by lawful authorities.

[hawker9000]

The whole idea is madness. ...Madness for any country that claims to celebrate free speech. The global media will have a field day with this.