Army Denies Buying Web Security Cracking Devices

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Army Denies Buying Web Security Cracking Devices

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen, Staff Reporter -

 

The director of Army Cyber Center, Maj. Gen. Rittee Intravudh in an undated file photo. Photo : Matichon

 

BANGKOK — Hacktivists posted online Tuesday documents they say contradict army denials it has purchased decryption devices that would allow access to encrypted computer traffic.

 

As cyber battles sparked by the passage of the new Computer Crime Act continue, online activist group Citizens Against Single Gateway on Monday posted screenshots purportedly obtained from an army procurement database. Listed among purchases were items used to crack the standard security protocols people use to access web servers securely.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2016/12/27/army-denies-buying-web-security-cracking-devices/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2016-12-27

[jpinx]

Other countries might not have a single gateway, but they have tight controls over what gets in and out but using legal instruments on the ISP companies. 

[Enoon]

 

They have indeed purchased the latest, "state of the art", devices.

 

They bought them having been assured by the salesman that these devices could go "up to eleven".

 

 

Edited December 27, 2016 by Enoon

[Ricardo]

Made by the same company that made those wonderful bomb-detectors ?

[Honthy]

I would deeply surprised if they considered buying more.... Every government has. 

[dcnx]

GT-2000 Internet Cracker 

[Somtamnication]

Cisco being one of the biggest culprits. But why is anyone surprised????

[Sphere]

Is that a communist flag behind him?

[wow64]

Even with a single gateway you cannot stop information getting in and out. 

 

However with these hollow boxes that I have with a usb connector this will solve every problem Thailand has with the internet - 100,000b each and you need at least 900 of them. 

Edited December 27, 2016 by wow64

[NCC1701A]

google wikileaks glimmerglass. (if you dare)

 

this is very old news.

 

 

[NCC1701A]

"...online activist group Citizens Against Single Gateway on Monday posted screenshots purportedly obtained from an army procurement database."

 

photo caption:

 

"you told me Windows 98 was secure."

[Tredz]

7 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

google wikileaks glimmerglass. (if you dare)

 

this is very old news.

 

 

absolutly, not a big surprise !

[NCC1701A]

you can follow the action at #opsinglegateway on Twitter.

[NCC1701A]

the hacker "blackplans" has a huge amount of info on twitter.

and the real hardcore hackers Anonymous just jumped in on Twitter.

 

how can the Thai government stop the rest of the world's hackers from attacking? They stepped on a hornets nest with the arrest of the Thai hackers.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/hackers-hit-thai-sites-protest-restrictive-internet-law-44279742

Edited December 27, 2016 by NCC1701A

[Prbkk]

57 minutes ago, dcnx said:

GT-2000 Internet Cracker 

 

Yes, the Stephh cartoon in today's BP post is on a related theme: the Army guy saying that unfortunately hackers have got to the GT2000 and they no longer work as well as they used to.

[Bureaucrat]

So how will this new single gateway effect people using vpn which is a must have if you like in Thailand? and which some westerners  uses.

Edited December 27, 2016 by Bureaucrat

[chainarong]

The way it is all going everyone will have web detection devices and scrambled encryption to ward of the continued Junta attacks on your monthly calendar appointment book.........................................

[chainarong]

7 minutes ago, Bureaucrat said:

Wow fantastic post will share as much as possible. 

I second that, Thailand is indeed looking down the barrel of the internet , media gun............................................

[Bureaucrat]

4 minutes ago, SirBuwanaDogbossKing said:

no it isn't and no they don't.

Sorry can you expand? We write sentences in English and what is your source for this information? 

[NCC1701A]

58 minutes ago, Bureaucrat said:

So how will this new single gateway effect people using vpn which is a must have if you like in Thailand? and which some westerners  uses.

well, my VPN company had to close their servers in Russia because they do not keep logs of your connections to their servers, something the Russian government now requires. So there is nothing for the government to look at if they want to try and trace you.

 

Can Thailand make it illegal to use a VPN?

Do they even know what a VPN is?

 

Obviously not a good idea but when has that ever stopped them?

 

I never understood why they need a single gateway.

The NSA in the USA installed a entire floor at both ATT buildings on the west and east coasts and picked off everything right at the source.

 

Of course the NSA employs the best computer scientist in the world and gives them unlimited funds. 

 

And remember, governments like the USA don't want other governments to be able to crack the encryption that everybody thinks is bullet proof but that they monitor 24/7.

 

and lets look at the Thai hackers that just got arrested. Lets say for a moment that the Thai government did locate the hackers by monitoring packets at some place in the "network".

How did they do it? They just got lucky?

 

the Thai Army cyber command must have this ability.

 

and of course the kid hackers were not very good at covering their tracks. very easy to do with a little research.

 

anyway all of this is at least 10 to 20 years old. just like the computers in use all over Thailand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2016 by NCC1701A

[A1Str8]

Yeah, nobody expected them to admit it. 

[greenchair]

2 hours ago, Sphere said:

Is that a communist flag behind him?

That's very interesting. 

What is that flag. ?

[webfact]

Prawit denies Army bought decryption device
By JITRAPORN SENAWONG 
WASAMON AUDJARINT 
THE NATION

 

Prawit

 

BANGKOK: -- DEPUTY Premier and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan and Army chief Chalermchai Sittisart yesterday rejected claims the army had bought Internet decryption tools and threatened to pursue legal action against the accuser.

 

“The information provided in the [Facebook fanpage that opposes the single gateway] has been doctored,” the Army chief Chalermchai said. 

 

“It can be observed that it is a list of tool supplies for Army engineers and the Secure Sockets Layer [SSL] decryptors comes last on the list. We don’t mix tool supplies with communication tools,” he said, advising people to use their discretion when assessing the report.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30302990

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-12-28

[Crossy]

10 hours ago, greenchair said:

That's very interesting. 

What is that flag. ?

 

It looks awfully like China.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China

 

[Raymonddiaz]

governments always say the truth. We believe you Generals.

[harada]

Would you buy a car from this man. 

[Raymonddiaz]

5 minutes ago, harada said:

Would you buy a car from this man. 

no because he looks like a dentist.

[debate101]

I feel like since the press is no longer free to investigate and report the truth, they try to point people in the right direction using the "(big shot) denies (thing that is most likely true)" template.

[BSJ]

It's about time some wag said about the good Army man Maj. Gen. Rittee Intravudh  "He is really Chinese pretending to be Thai".

 

But that would be uncalled for!

[MaiChai]

Suppose no one knows what a private key is? Providing the private key is kept private and you choose a large cipher then ssl encrypted traffic is not crackable. Well without a hugh amount of processing power.

 

Openvpn is based on a certificate authority cert and then a pub/priv key pair. Mostly openvpn used these days although cisco vpn still quite popular.

 

But why does Thailand need this gateway?