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How tyrants use tech to spy on us all
News, Published on 08/02/2023
» Parmy Olson: You're the co-authors of a new book, Pegasus: How a Spy In Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy, which tells the story of Pegasus, a powerful spyware developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. In recent years, a range of governments around the world purchased this technology, allowing them to gain remote-control access to people's mobile phones without their knowledge. In 2020, a secret source leaked a list to your team of investigative journalists in Paris that contained 50,000 phone numbers that NSO Group's clients wanted to spy on. Among the names on the list were French president Emmanuel Macron, the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi and a raft of journalists, including your own colleagues.
Can't touch this
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 23/10/2020
» Thailand is known as "The Land Of Smiles" because everyone here is happy and joyful all the time... right? As true as that is, there are certain things you can do here that can turn that smile upside down.
Time to come clean
News, Postbag, Published on 15/06/2019
» Re: "Cops scrutinise MP's posts", (BP, June 11).
Old media must learn new tricks, seminar told
News, Taam Yingcharoen, Published on 14/03/2018
» Mainstream news agencies must fight to avoid being left behind in an era where technology has caused a paradigm shift in how people absorb information, a seminar was told yesterday.
Reeling in the viewers
Muse, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 08/07/2017
» To the eyes of your average Joe, Googling the words "Bangkok Hooker" may get you some strange, if not disgusted looks. But to anyone who knows a thing or two about fishing, it's a whole different story.
Put meat on bike laws
News, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2016
» Re: "Children told not to drive motorbikes", (BP, Nov 30).
Guarded hopefulness
Asia focus, Published on 16/11/2015
» John Micklethwait is a newspaper man seized by fear and hope for the future of journalism. To be sure, "newspaper man" is a bit of an anachronistic description for the new editor-in-chief at Bloomberg News, where no ink is spilled on paper. Across 325,000 Bloomberg terminals, headlines splash upon screens in seconds, bumping stale events much faster than one wraps fish with yesterday's page one.
Web use passes TV in Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 25/06/2013
» Thais use web 16 hours a week & TV 10 hours, web 49% vs. TV 36%, but TV 69% of ad spending, web only 3%.
Air Pollution: Northern Thai "hell in the air"
Jon Fernquest, Published on 15/03/2013
» Wildfires in Myanmar & Thailand caused sudden dangerous levels of air pollution in northern Thailand. Children, older people & asthma suffers told to stay indoors.
Impact of Japan crisis on Thai economy
Jon Fernquest, Published on 15/03/2011
» Short-term shortages likely to drive markets. Japanese businesses may relocate to other countries to reduce business risk.