Thai Parliament website crashes after online attacks by opponents of computer crime bill

[webfact]

Parliament website crashes after online attacks by opponents of computer crime bill

 

BANGKOK: -- The website of the parliament crashed for about an hour Thursday night after it was attacked by netizens in an apparent show of defiance against the Computer Crime Bill which is scheduled to be debated for the third and final reading on Friday.

 

The simultaneous attack which started at about 8 pm was launched by netizens opposing the bill under the name of Single Gateway: Thailand Internet Firewall #opsinglegateway. The attack caused the parliament website to crash for almost an hour before it became operational again.

 

Pol Gen Chatchaval Suksomchit, chairman of the scrutiny committee on the Computer Crime Bill, said that the bill did not call for the imposition of single gateway which appears in another bill.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/parliament-website-crashes-online-attacks-opponents-computer-crime-bill/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-12-16

[ukrules]

We should consider ourselves lucky that there's no single point of failure to attack because someone could take the entire country offline

 

[davehowden]

35 minutes ago, ukrules said:

We should consider ourselves lucky that there's no single point of failure to attack because someone could take the entire country offline

 

What like a single gateway you mean, 555.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

Are they using "Parntip Plaza" Windows 97 on the Parliaments servers hosting their website ?

[JAG]

Are they using "Parntip Plaza" Windows 97 on the Parliaments servers hosting their website ?

No, they've upgraded to XP.

[rkidlad]

The irony. They wanna make Thailand safer yet they can't secure their own websites.

 

They block porn sites yet you can easily just enter the address into a proxy server. You can still easily read things they find offensive online without any block. Computers and dinosaur military men do not mix. In a country like Thailand, it's a young person's game. 

[worgeordie]

Its happening all over the World, Governments feel they cannot trust their

citizens,and under the premise of terrorism and fear,they enforce more and

more means to control the populations,freedom is not what it once was.

regards worgeordie

[NongKhaiKid]

More ammunition for the need to control, not only did people complain but they used computers to do it and none of it's acceptable.

It's a sad day when an unelected ' govt' isn't allowed to do whatever it wants, all in the interests of the nation.

[DavidVincent]

Thanks to Tor they will just do a useless job.

For some websites you don't even need a proxy to access them, just go to the mobile URL or enter the IP number and bim! you're in!

[yellowboat]

TOR and VPN's will become more common.  There will be more dissent, not less due to government's around the world trying to curtail freedom of speech. 

[wealthychef]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Its happening all over the World, Governments feel they cannot trust their

citizens,and under the premise of terrorism and fear,they enforce more and

more means to control the populations,freedom is not what it once was.

regards worgeordie

 

That's because citizens are realizing they cannot trust their governments.  

[NCC1701A]

2 hours ago, JAG said:

No, they've upgraded to XP.

Service Pack One or Two?

[Beats56]

2 hours ago, rkidlad said:

The irony. They wanna make Thailand safer yet they can't secure their own websites.

 

They block porn sites yet you can easily just enter the address into a proxy server. You can still easily read things they find offensive online without any block. Computers and dinosaur military men do not mix. In a country like Thailand, it's a young person's game. 

They can't even get the 90 day report to work 100%. And they ARE still using outdated XP software. Saw it for myself at immigration. 

 

[Sphere]

How is this even possible? I thought all passwords were changed from 123456 to 111111 after the last takedown. 

[elgordo38]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Pol Gen Chatchaval Suksomchit, chairman of the scrutiny committee on the Computer Crime Bill, said that the bill did not call for the imposition of single gateway which appears in another bill.

Sounds like the old shell game to me. The government is giving you the medicine in small doses so that you do not balk at the taste. 

[Squeegee]

Crashing on the road-map

 

Winners

[lvr181]

8 hours ago, ukrules said:

We should consider ourselves lucky that there's no single point of failure to attack because someone could take the entire country offline

 

Oh..........

 

But I am sure the "brains trust" behind the single internet gateway have considered this and have implemented plans so that such a scenario cannot happen?

 

Or have they? Companies operating in Thailand and the financial institutions must be worried about what the hell is going happen!

[Mook23]

5 hours ago, JAG said:

No, they've upgraded to XP.

Pirated XP that is... khrap.

[Mook23]

2 hours ago, Sphere said:

How is this even possible? I thought all passwords were changed from 123456 to 111111 after the last takedown. 

My intel just confirmed they will use 555 as pw from now on!

[Sphere]

3 minutes ago, Mook23 said:

My intel just confirmed they will use 555 as pw from now on!

 

Very worrying....because it's also the launch code for the toilet flush on an aircraft carrier in Sattahip.