Database containing personal info of 106M visitors to Thailand exposed online

Post by BrandoElFollito » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 7:15 PM UTC

tekstar wrote: post #37

ericbarrett wrote: post #34

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I get spam emails all the time which claim to have webcam pics of the recipient in flagrante delicto , oh and here’s a Bitcoin address you should send to if you don’t want them public. Rubbish, of course, as there’s nothing targeted about them; just a cleverly-worded mass email disguised as an individual extortion attempt. The next obvious step, however, is sprinkling enough details in to make it more convincing. “I…

When I get those I like to look up the bitcoin address on block explorer. Last time I checked one, two people had paid it out. No clue how many messages the spammer had sent, but there was at least a bit of payoff

Post by fy20 » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 3:40 AM UTC

iso1210 wrote: post #30

bpoyner wrote: post #27

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15 years ago a foreigner couldn't even get a hotel room in Thailand without handing over passport information for each guest. I can't imagine it's changed much since then. If the Thai police want to track you down it wouldn't be very hard.

I can't think of a single country (other than my own, and maybe in the rest of the EU) where I've gone to a hotel and not had to give my passport and credit card. Passport is photocopied, credit card is checked. Passport number is like a US social security number, it's public information.

Post by iso1210 » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 9:01 AM UTC

fy20 wrote: post #43

iso1210 wrote: post #30

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I can't think of a single country (other than my own, and maybe in the rest of the EU) where I've gone to a hotel and not had to give my passport and credit card. Passport is photocopied, credit card is checked. Passport number is like a US social security number, it's public information.

I don't think I've ever not been asked for my passport (or some other form of government ID) when staying in hotels in the EU. Two weeks ago I stayed at a large chain and I was asked for passports of my whole family.

Post by marcus_holmes » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 3:07 PM UTC

vmception wrote: post #46

marcus_holmes wrote: post #44

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> The number has to corroborate whats on the picture of the passport. Yeah, so knowing the passport number alone is useless. And yeah, lots of the "security" around us is theatre and easily bypassed.

you superimpose it onto the picture of the passport, because you know the number. that's like saying an exploit is useless because the pentester still has to privilege escalate. wrong forum to hold that opinion.

Post by josephcsible » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #48

blunte wrote: post #23

I guess I'm in there too. But passports get copied and provided to so many institutions these days that I wouldn't even consider nationality and passport number as private. Now, if someone is traveling to Thailand to partake of some of the more controversial options, then I can see how this would be damaging. We should all do our best to maintain privacy, but at the same time we should understand that the concept of…

> we have less - and will have even less in the future - privacy than people did 10+ years ago ok, but hunter-gatherers had only minimal privacy so we can adapt to a wide range of "privacies". yes, it is true that the possibility of "increasingly impersonal threats from far away" has risen dramatically in recent history and it's not clear how well we will adapt to that.