• News & article

  Data security a foreign concept

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/04/2018

  » You'd think that just about the worst thing that could happen in today's charged smartphone-internet intersection is the theft of many thousands of the most important identification documents and personal details of mobile phone owners. But you'd be wrong.

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  Silence rewarded

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 05/11/2017

  » The prosecutor of Pattani province officially dropped the army's charges under the criminal defamation and Computer Crime Act laws against three civil rights veterans who had the audacity to detail 54 incidents of torture in the deep South and publish a book about them, entitled <i>Torture</i>.

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  Manacled again

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 08/04/2018

  » It has been quite an early summer harvest for the regime combines baling up inconvenient voices.

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  A mad, mad week

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 20/05/2018

  » Week Three of the 2019-2020 election campaign was Crazy Week. There always is at least one.

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  The Intimidation Game

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 22/10/2017

  » The military government has a propaganda unit. People know this, including reporter-people, which includes us, and editor-people. But they still call the chief manipulator of regime propaganda a "government spokesman". A two-star general whose sole task is to justify military actions without ever admitting an error was possible is also, on all front pages and news broadcasts, a military "spokesman".

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  The Fakebook Diaries

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 01/01/2017

  » Around 15 million or so people noticed last Tuesday that there was no bomb or large explosion anywhere in Bangkok. None of those people worked for Facebook, which is OK, but after the "explosion", people who work for Facebook insisted there was, actually, an explosion.

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  Prayut fires warning shot

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 11/12/2016

  » What a huge surprise it wasn't that authorities went for the jugular of the BBC when perusing foreign news coverage of succession to the throne.

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  Still watching

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 16/12/2018

  » In its infinite benevolence and wisdom and all-around sacrifice, the exclusive men's club known as the National Council for Peace and Order (Junta) gave back some of the stuff they took from us four and a half years ago.

• News & article

  Digital Tu

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 21/10/2018

  » In the week the general prime minister saw Trump's Twitter bet and raised him by 400%, he did something even more political. He stopped the march to enactment of the Cybersecurity Act in its tracks.

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  Russia toughening on hackers' extradition

  News, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/07/2016

  » Russia has served notice to Thailand and the United States to expect another all-out diplomatic and legal fight over the expected attempt to extradite a man arrested in Pattaya for alleged ties to a billion-baht hacking ring.

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