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07-01-08 22:53 #2151
Posts: 993Thats scary news..
Use Tor
torproject.org
In hell they wont be able to catch anything we do if we are using TOR
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07-01-08 16:41 #2150
Posts: 1584This story reminds of WHY they make "whole disk encryption" programs. The computer won't even BOOT without the PASSWORD. Nothing goes IN and NOTHING comes OUT without BOOTING
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06-30-08 10:55 #2149
Posts: 25Police Hunting Down Pattaya Message Board Porn Posters
I tought this could be of interest to members here in the Forum:
http://www.pattayaghost.com/2008/06/...-porn-posters/
"If you thought your password made it safe for you to post nude photos of your Thai teerak on a Pattaya Internet message board, think again. Pattaya police not only have “Level 2″ access, but some enterprising officers are hunting down amateur pornographers and their models and demanding payoffs under threat of jail time.
“They’re going around all the bars looking for the girls and then getting the girls to tell them who shot the photos,” said New Living Dolls One owner Shane (aka “Alan Lad”). “Then they’re hitting the girls up for small amounts of money and the farangs for big money.”
Shane was summoned to his go-go one afternoon last week to meet with an officer well-known to Pattaya Waking Street bar owners. The officer came armed with color printouts of Internet message board pages featuring nude, hotel shots of a former NLD1 dancer and wanted copies of her ID card and her current address.
Shane said he refused to cough up the ID card copies and sent the officer on his way after telling him he didn’t know where the woman currently worked.
Shane said, however, his found his former dancer about two days later and learned the police had found her working for her current Soi Diamond employer. “Her face just fell when she saw me,” he said. The dancer said the officer had threatened to arrest her on pornography charges unless she paid a fine and told him who shot the photos, where and when.
Police have increasingly been monitoring all Thailand internet traffic since the passage of the new Computer Crime Act last year. Under the new law, police or government officials can seize computers from homes and offices without a warrant if the machines are suspected of containing pornographic material or evidence connected to criminal activities or cyber crimes.
The new law has already spawned widespread abuse, with owners of Internet cafes all over Thailand complaining that police are seizing computers after planting porn on the machines during “inspections” and then demanding large payoffs to get the computers back.
Message boards such as the Pattaya Secrets, Pattaya Adicts and some others do not allow nude photos to be posted on the “open” Level 1, which anyone can access with a simple e-mail address. Members are promoted by board administrators to higher levels where explicit photos can, and regularly are, uploaded.
However, “Level 2” only offers a false sense of security, as Secrets continually fights a tide of members showing Level 2 and even exclusive “Level 3” posts to non-members, other boards and even girls whose photos are taken without permission. Complaints lodged with police by the victims of such photos are suspected to be one reason why all the message boards are now under the police microscope.
The police officer’s printouts clearly showed police have gained access to a “Level 2″ somewhere, most likely by obtaining passwords from the increasing numbers of Pattaya ex-pats arrested on sexually-related crimes.
This month’s arrest of American Todd Arthur Williams on Internet pornography charges is just an example of how the police are working to stamp out Net porn. Williams has been identified as a member of Pattaya Secrets, Teak Door, Pattaya Addicts and probably other Pattaya and Thai boards. According to the more than four dozen comments posted here on The Pattaya Ghost’s article on Willaims’ arrest, Williams is now thought to be cooperating with police, providing names of other Net pornographers and passwords to various free and for-pay online forums.
Tourists are obviously less at risk of police persecution than locals, provided they post their sexy photos after they’ve left the country. Yet if police track down the hotel at which the photos were taken, they can obtain copies of passports and passport numbers, making it possible the tourist might be blacklisted or arrested upon return to Thailand.
For ex-pats the risks are even higher. Guys who delight in showing off their latest conquest now run a real risk of getting an unwelcome knock on the door."
Happy Hunting,
HF
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06-30-08 02:54 #2148
Posts: 51Why work ESL when you can max out the credit cards?
With a good credit score and an average household income you'd be amazed at how much unsecured loans the banks will give you. If you aren't planning to return home, you could always build up your credit lines and max them out. I've heard of people with average incomes getting up to $250k in credit cards. At 5% interest, you'd be making 33k baht a month for the rest of your life without lifting a finger!
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06-24-08 19:25 #2147
Posts: 3003Originally Posted by Tansak KTV
Must admit that the degree of arrogance and smug self satisfaction displayed by some members of this forum fair take the breath away! GH
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06-24-08 15:53 #2146
Posts: 1584"go nuts" maybe, but "go broke" if NOT.
as a German saying goes "Schaffen, schaffen Hausle bauen"
("work hard and make your own little place" - more or less) No work, no money - no money, no honey.
It's why I keep coming back to both places
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06-24-08 06:34 #2145
Posts: 1677Originally Posted by Opebo
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06-24-08 06:19 #2144
Posts: 1641Originally Posted by Old Thai Hand
Admittedly 35,000/month provides an ok lifestyle upcountry. But, you still can't save anything and can't go anywhere. So what happens? These guys fritter away their lives, and suddenly find themselves in their 50s and 60s without a pot to [CodeWord140] in or a wall to throw it over. I've seen it happen all too often here.
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06-24-08 03:12 #2143
Posts: 2102Originally Posted by Opebo
One wonders what motivates a 40-something man (99% are men, afterall) to come here and work for such a paltry sum. A criminal record, perhaps?
Admittedly 35,000/month provides an ok lifestyle upcountry. But, you still can't save anything and can't go anywhere. So what happens? These guys fritter away their lives, and suddenly find themselves in their 50s and 60s without a pot to [CodeWord140] in or a wall to throw it over. I've seen it happen all too often here.
I repeat. At that age, unless one's making at least 100k/month here, one should be doing something better with one's life.
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06-23-08 17:17 #2142
Posts: 1641Originally Posted by Old Thai Hand
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06-23-08 15:16 #2141
Posts: 2102Originally Posted by NicFrenchy
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06-23-08 03:43 #2140
Posts: 4665Originally Posted by Opebo
Originally Posted by Old Thai Hand
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06-23-08 03:13 #2139
Posts: 2102Originally Posted by Opebo
It seems that only the young 20/30 somethings teaching ESL are making such lowly wages. Aren't you a little old to be among this lot?
Even my GF, when she finishes school in a couple of months will start working for a salary of 32,000 and she's a Thai and only 23.
Any Farang above the age of 30 staying here for a paltry 35,000/month is an idiot and loser.
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06-22-08 22:26 #2138
Posts: 14Originally Posted by Old Thai Hand
Fooolishman
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06-22-08 16:42 #2137
Posts: 1641Originally Posted by Old Thai Hand