Daily Talk Forum
  • Advertise
  • Search
  • Member List
  • Calendar
Hello There, Guest! Login Register
Daily Talk Forum › General Discussions › Current Affairs, News and Politics v
« Previous 1 ... 142 143 144 145 146 ... 172 Next »

We'll go back to two-way radios, says CNS chief



Post Reply 
 
Thread Rating:
  • 1 Votes - 2 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Threaded Mode | Linear Mode
We'll go back to two-way radios, says CNS chief
Coffee Break Offline
Gold Member
*****
Gold Members

Posts: 8,841
Joined: May 2008
Reputation: 26
Post: #1
We'll go back to two-way radios, says CNS chief

We'll go back to two-way radios, says CNS chief

Mobile phones are no longer safe and the military will switch back to traditional walkie-talkies to avoid any spying by Singapore, Army chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin said yesterday.


"We will use more radio communications. We already have the equipment, so we'll just go back to our old tools," he said.

Sonthi, the Army commander and chairman of the Council for National Security (CNS), on Wed-nesday dropped a bombshell by saying that mobile-phone conversations were being picked up and relayed to Singapore. He suggested the city-state could be spying on Thailand.

In a related development, Infor-mation and Communications Tech-nology Minister Sitthichai Pookai-yaudom yesterday suggested that phone users should use a machine called a voice scrambler to make their calls less prone to wire-tapping.

He said every phone communication was prone to wire-tapping, and the president of the United States used such a scrambling device.

Chuan Leekpai, a former prime minister who is now chief adviser to the Democrat Party, yesterday said the problem of wiretapping had been around for at least five years.

He said the opposition had raised alarms about the problem, but was ignored by the government of that time. "Wiretapping in the past could be done by [Thailand's local mobile-phone operator]. But we're surprised to hear that now even Singapore could pick up communications from Thailand," Chuan said.

Meanwhile, Advanced Info Ser-vice (AIS) chief executive Sompra-song Boonyachai said yesterday the company's network was safe from wire-tapping and that it had never imported wire-tapping equipment.

He added that AIS shareholders had never ordered the company to conduct wire-tapping.

"We have good governance. Even if the shareholders told us to do so, the executives would not do it," Somprasong said at a conference yesterday, held to ensure the public of its secure cellular network.

Somprasong said it was too early to tell whether the remark by the CNS had prompted concern over wire-tapping among AIS customers.

AIS has about 19 million customers. It is the flagship of Shin Corp, founded by the family of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

AIS president Wichian Mektrakarn said that three years ago the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and the Anti-Money Laundering Office had asked all telecom operators to connect their networks with them as part of their crime suppression. However, AIS refused to comply.

He added that one state agency had also asked AIS to do the same three years ago, and again the company refused.

Somkiat Tangkitvanich, research director of the Thailand Development Research Institute, said that to prevent wire-tapping, there were many better ways than withdrawing the satellite concession from a private company.

Rather, the satellite service provider could block specific cellular frequencies used by the military with a password.

The Nation

Money Making Sites - Minisite Hosting - TriVita - Gold Membership - Advertise
01-20-2007 06:09 AM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply


« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
Post Reply 


Possibly Related Threads...
Thread: Author Replies: Views: Last Post
  Russian commies coming back! Bronx 0 1,139 11-25-2011 03:04 PM
Last Post: Bronx
  Ban Ki-Moon seeks new term as UN chief Int News 0 1,099 06-06-2011 07:05 PM
Last Post: Int News
  British spy chief unveiled on Facebook cyrano 0 1,097 07-06-2009 06:35 AM
Last Post: cyrano
  EU chief: U.S. economic plans ‘a way to hell’ cyrano 0 807 03-26-2009 06:58 AM
Last Post: cyrano
  Villagers in China beat village chief, dispute with officials over quake subsidies cyrano 0 796 02-21-2009 07:25 AM
Last Post: cyrano

  • View a Printable Version
  • Send this Thread to a Friend
  • Subscribe to this thread
Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

Advertise on Daily Talk Forum
  • Webmaster Forum
  • cPanel Hosting
  • SEO Directory
  • Toronto
    • Contact Us
    • Daily Talk Forum
    • Return to Top
    • Lite (Archive) Mode
    • RSS Syndication
    • Help
    • Portal
    • Membership
    • Advertise
    • Banners
    • Privacy
    • Rules

    • Review DTF at Alexa
    • Review DTF at Nortons
    • Site Map

    • Links
    • Your Link Here
    Current time: 03-03-2021, 06:01 PM Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2021 MyBB Group Theme created by Justin S