Staying safe on your computer in Thailand
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Staying safe on your computer in Thailand
Hello, looking to travel to Hua Hin in the future and I was wondering what everyone suggests as far as keeping your computers and phones secure? Also, should I be worried about being able to access things like my email and such? Thanks!
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No different than any other civilized country in the world!! What sort of country do you think Thailand is?
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Install a VPN if you need to read the Daily Mail, everything else is fine.
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Can you tell me what a VPN does and how/when I can use it. Any particular download likes?robcar wrote:Install a VPN if you need to read the Daily Mail, everything else is fine.
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You can read Daily Mail by googling Mail on Sunday or opening any of the sub sections like news or fashion
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This is also pretty good and very safe: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
I would avoid doing any banking on smartphones while here, Thai websites and ATMs are easily hacked.
I would avoid doing any banking on smartphones while here, Thai websites and ATMs are easily hacked.
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A VPN masks your location with a substitute IP address. You can use it anytime you want. Thai government has a thing about the Daily Mail, hence they block it. You can get around this with the VPN, just set your location to UK.
I use Hola, which is downloadable but also included as an extension in Chrome.........easy to use even for a beginner.
I use Hola, which is downloadable but also included as an extension in Chrome.........easy to use even for a beginner.
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Off topic but amusing since everyone is mentioning the 'Daily Fail'.
Wikipedia editors ban 'unreliable' Daily Mail as source
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/br ... s/30306074
Wikipedia editors ban 'unreliable' Daily Mail as source
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/br ... s/30306074
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This is not the USA
This is not the USA
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Thanks for that, Ginja. I've never used a VPN but this one was installed in a minute and as you say can be switched on and off at a click! Any simpleton can use it.
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Can you use it for Microsoft Edge??
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Appears so:
https://www.betternet.co/windows-vpn
I don't use Edge but it keeps popping-up on my Windows laptop. I'll stick with my favourite - Google Chrome.
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Appears so:
https://www.betternet.co/windows-vpn
I don't use Edge but it keeps popping-up on my Windows laptop. I'll stick with my favourite - Google Chrome.
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Re: Staying safe on your computer in Thailand
Thanks everyone. I just know that in some countries certain sites and such are blocked, I just didn't know if this was the case or not. I mean I love watching Netflix and being connected, but I also want to travel! Anyway, as for VPN, when googling I came across this https://securethoughts.com/vpn-review/. So this would help? As for banking on smartphones, I don't plan to, but what about on my computer? Would it be best to avoid banking on my computer as well? No big deal, I will just make sure to have everything set up before I leave. Thanks everyone!
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There is no issue in overseas banking on line, I have no experience of Thai banking on line and would not do it, I just do not trust the systems here.
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