Articles by Don Sambandaraksa

About Don Sambandaraksa

Don is a contributing editor for Disruptive.Asia. For most of the 00s, he was the face of Database, the enterprise tech section of the Bangkok Post, and later covered Thailand and the region for Telecom Asia. Before becoming a journalist he was a civil servant at Thailand's ICT Ministry. He is currently studying for an M.Sc. in Digital Currency at the University of Nicosia. He is also an avid proponent of strong encryption and Bitcoin.

If we don’t fix DNS root servers, the next Mirai could melt the internet

September 15, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston has warned that unless something is done to protect the DNS root servers from the “Internet of Stupid Things”, DDoS attacks targeting DNS threaten to overwhelm defenses and cause an Read more…

LEOs, MEOs and lasers: the future of broadband satellite

September 14, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

Over the next five years, 10,000 new internet satellites from seven different consortia will be launched into orbit to deliver broadband services quite unlike what we have come to expect from satellite broadband up until Read more…

Cyber security pro tips: email security, immune systems and AI

September 13, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

Security experts of all stripes appeared at a closed-door plenary session at the 2017 FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) Regional Symposium for Asia-Pacific in Taichung, Taiwan to discuss the latest cybersecurity issues Read more…

Bitcoin Cash is born, and it’s not off to a great start

August 3, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

On August 1 at 12:20 GMT the Bitcoin blockchain forked and a new coin, Bitcoin Cash, was born. The main blockchain continued as before, but the new branch promises to solve the congestion problem by Read more…

Tomorrow’s Bitcoin Cash launch is very much a nothingburger

July 31, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

At 12:20 GMT tomorrow, Bitcoin will have witnessed the most hyped non-event in its recent history, the so-called User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) that will give birth to a new coin called Bitcoin Cash. Last Read more…

Two months later, Dtac/TOT 2300 plan still stuck in first gear

July 26, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

Dtac has expressed concern over a lack of progress over the 2300-MHz partnership deal it won with state telco TOT two months ago. Speaking to reporters, Dtac SEVP chief corporate affairs officer Paradai Theeratada said Read more…

Bitcoin fork war averted as SegWit upgrade is locked in

July 21, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

After nine months of politics, bickering, trolling, blocking, accusations and all-out warfare, the most significant upgrade to the Bitcoin network in recent times, SegWit, is now locked in and will soon activate. SegWit (a.k.a. Segregated Read more…

Bangkok bits: Free rail spectrum, MCOT reversal, Google tax

July 21, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

ITEM: NBTC Secretary-General Takorn Tantasith announced that the telecoms regulator is allocating 850- and 400-MHz spectrum to two high-speed rail projects. Dtac currently has 10 MHz of 850-MHz under a concession with state telco CAT Read more…

Three Ethereum ICOs drained of $32m due to third-party wallet bug

July 20, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

A bug in popular third-party Ethereum wallet Parity has caused three ICOs to be drained of their funds to the tune of over $32 million. The Parity bug in question meant that certain multi-signature wallets Read more…

TDRI president slams paradoxical Thailand 4.0 vision

July 19, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

The president of the Thailand Development and Research Institute (TDRI) think tank has slammed the government for promoting a paradoxical vision of Thailand 4.0 that calls for a knowledge-based economy yet stifles free flow of Read more…

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