Warning for voters posting thumb pics on social media
SCORES of people have shared images of their blue ink-stained thumbs on social media to show they voted in the referendum.
Among them were Buranii Chandraparnik, managing director of Piton Communications, and Jin Somroutai, political news editor at Nation News Agency.
Even Constitution Drafting Commission chairman Meechai Ruchupan and former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra got into the act.
Sudarat Disayawattana Chantrawatanakul also showed her thumbprint and posted her drawing to invite people to vote.
New Democracy Movement urged people to post images of their thumbs with the hashtag #voteno.
However Yunyong Teng-amnuay, a former engineering lecturer and an Internet pioneer in Thailand, warned people to be careful posting images of their thumbs on social media, presumably for security reasons. His thumb and those of his family members were covered with stickers in the image he posted.
Thanachart Numnonda, president of the Association of Thai ICT Industry, told social media users via his Facebook page that voters who posted images of their thumbs should delete them, as they could be copied.
Forensic scientist Weerachai Phutdhawong also took to Facebook to urge people not show their thumbprints on social media for the same reason.
The thumbprint could be cloned and the cloned print used in a criminal offence to fool police.
Cybersecurity expert Prinya Hom-anek echoed those concerns.
Manoj Lohatepanont shared a news link of a 2014 BBC report in which a computer hacker claimed to have cloned a thumbprint of a German politician by using commercial software and images taken at a news conference.
Narudom Roongsiriwong posted that yesterday was national identity leak day because so many people displayed their thumbprints online.
Narudom said the action was risky because thumbprints were used in touch ID.
