“Our database is secure,” Col Sunchai told The Phuket News today.

Now i feel sooooo much better, about 99.1 % safe too

case closed

Our data base is secure.

He probably said it with a straight face.

Immigration offices recycle papers with other peoples details on the back.

So nothing is secure.

That's why so many people grass each other so quick once apprehended for any crime. Always secure in the knowledge everything is secret??

Personally, I am impressed he could make this statement with a straight face.

The art of being a Thai ...

'“Our database is secure,” Col Sunchai told The Phuket News today.' Sunchai seems to have a peculiarly distorted view of what constitutes secure. Yet these people are, in part, responsible for security in LoS.

Personally, I am impressed he could make this statement with a straight face.

The other one was displaying the humour.

The reason is that they do not have the expertise to set up a secure fully automated networked online database at immigration. They use Mickey Mouse website creators and database installation companies at cheap rates. So what do people expect?

This is why in Thailand I don`t have my main bank accounts accessible online and try to keep to using my bank branches for business as much as possible where the staff know me. That`s about all we can do.

Thai officialdom. Trust at your own peril.