Government Orders Great Firewall of Thailand

[jumusman]

Here comes the kee kwai!

'Single gateway' only for regulatory oversight: Prajin

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politic ... 69841.html

" is it possible to have a neutral Internet exchange and set up a joint-company to operate this while the government oversees and protects people, not violates their basic rights? "


I LOVE the part about protecting people... whenever there is a military government in any country they rave about how important the "people" are.. yeah and Democratic People's Republic of Korea is about freedom and "people" as well, just people who are not allowed any internet access at all and are not allowed to leave their own country.

I love the People's Republic of China too.. lots of freedom's there... unless you want to check your Facebook page... oops..blocked..

When you start to hear talk about "protecting people" maybe that should raise a red flag...it's another way of saying "control".

[PeteC]

The Thais are patient people and will accept almost any hardship....but don't f with their social media!

Angry Thai Internet users 'bring down ICT website'

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakin ... 69936.html

[PeteC]

^....more: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/securit ... way-attack

[PeteC]

Government warns netizen protesters

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/securit ... protesters

The chart in the article indicates China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia have single gateways. I didn't know about other except China.

[buksida]

Thailand’s ‘single gateway’ internet plan backfires spectacularly
Junta backtracks on plans to bottleneck Thailand’s internet traffic through a single gateway after online backlash

Imagine this: you are being awarded for something you haven’t done but you go to the reception gala anyway because it’s too tempting to miss the limelight. That’s what happened last Tuesday in New York, when Thai military Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha – during his week at the United Nations’ General Assembly – received the “ICTs in Sustainable Development Award” by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN’s IT and telecommunication agency.

Alongside nine other countries, the ITU awarded ”Thailand’s ICT Policy Framework” as ”an exemplary model for the development of an effective telecommunications/ICT Regulatory environment,” according to a statement on the ITU website, listing off several ICT policies that have happened over the past 15 years under various governments – in other words, well before then-army chief Gen. Prayuth launched the military coup of May 22, 2014, toppling the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

The statement also highlighted the ”National ICT Master Plan”, a policy blueprint introduced in 2002 by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (Yingluck’s brother) that also saw the creation of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT). It’s that same MICT plus the current cabinet that made headlines for all the wrong reasons again in the past few weeks, as a proposal to control Thailand’s internet traffic by introducing a single gateway was made public.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/135956/th ... tacularly/

[jumusman]

Good article, my favorite parts

"The prime minister is worried about children and young people" That's why I continually see 4 pre-teens on a motorbike with no helmet driving on the wrong side of the street. Yeah he is really concerned about their safety..

Regarding the single gateway

" It would also free up ISPs from security costs as the government would take care of IT security on their behalf."

But at the beginning of the article.

"Thai government websites are comparatively easy targets, loaded with malware, generally unstable and using a form-over-function-approach to design"

So the Government sounds like they have the IT security skills to handle the job, gateway servers/infrastructure gets infected which then gets passed on to anyone in Thailand using the internet... NICE ...

[jumusman]

Thailand’s ‘single gateway’ internet plan backfires spectacularly
Junta backtracks on plans to bottleneck Thailand’s internet traffic through a single gateway after online backlash

Imagine this: you are being awarded for something you haven’t done

So sort of like Obama's Nobel Peace prize!! Actually exactly the same.

[StevePIraq]

This is why they want to control the internet, to stop people ribbing them at how incompetent they are

[HHTel]

"New York, 27 September 2015 – ITU emphasized the vital role that information and communication technology (ICT) will play in meeting the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) at a special award ceremony held at UN Headquarters, New York yesterday which officially recognized nine Heads of State/Heads of Government for their efforts to improve access to ICT networks and services."

This is apparently a brand new award which has already lost credibility by awarding it to Thailand.

[HHTel]

Thailand scraps unpopular Internet 'Great Firewall' plan

Thailand's military government has scrapped a plan to create a single Internet gateway, a deputy prime minister said on Thursday, putting paid to a system aimed at allowing authorities to monitor content.

The plan to consolidate Thailand's 10 Internet gateways into one central government-controlled point had been one of the government's least popular ideas since it came to power following a bloodless coup last year.

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, a former finance minister, said the plan had been halted.

"We will not talk about this any more. If we say we won't do it, we won't do it," Somkid said during an a economic forum in Bangkok.

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/ ... 6I20151015

[JamesWest]

[buksida]

Despite denials, Thailand’s online surveillance plans are alive and well

”We will not talk about this any more. If we say we won’t do it, we won’t do it,” said Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak at an economic forum in Bangkok last week. His decisive words were in response to the ongoing controversy over the Thai military government’s plans to introduce an online single gateway.

Last month, Thai internet users discovered a cabinet resolution surveying the implementation of a single online gateway ”to be used as a device to control inappropriate websites and flow of news and information from overseas through the internet system.” Subsequent resolutions ordered the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) and related agencies to speed up their preliminary work.

If realized, Thailand’s internet traffic would be bottlenecked through a single gateway, making it possible for officials to filter and block undesirable content. This is in line with the military junta’s ongoing efforts to monitor and censor dissenting voices, both in real life and online, ever since it launched a military coup in May 2014.

Amidst widespread criticism and a coordinated mass-click-and-refresh bombardment that briefly knocked several government websites offline, Thai officials were scrambling to calm public opinion, only then to contradict themselves justifying why the junta wants to have a single gateway in the first place. The explanations varied from economic reasons, cybersecurity concerns and ultimately ending at Thai junta leader and Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha being initially ”worried” about the ”youth addiction to online games and access to inappropriate media”.

A week later, the government was hoping that the debate had died down. However, despite repeated statements insisting that it won’t pursue the single gateway plan anymore, not everyone is convinced by their declaration.

More: http://asiancorrespondent.com/136246/th ... veillance/

The international hacking collective called Anonymous declared cyberwar on the Thai government Thursday over its policy to consolidate a single internet gateway.

The main target of the attack was CAT Telecom Pcl, the state-owned company which has been designated by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and the cabinet to control the future gateway.

Early Friday, Twitter accounts apparently operated by Anonymous members showed parts of what it said were thousands of CAT customer accounts, including logins, passwords and personal IDs including Thai government IDs names and numbers.

The CAT website was taken off the internet for several hours late Thursday. CAT's home page, cattelecom.com, was back online early Friday.
But the biggest event of the hack as described by Anonymous was the release of previously undisclosed details about the single gateway plan. Reporter Don Sambandaraksa of the Telecomasia news site said Anonymous had emailed "a set of leaked documents" showing new details on the gateway project.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/local-n ... ay-protest

[hhinner]

^^ http://www.telecomasia.net/content/anon ... glegateway

[JamesWest]

it is war. read this.

[JamesWest]

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and here:

https://www.fireeye.com/cyber-map/threat-map.html?