May 2026: Ten Temples

Welcome to This Month in TechTransThai of May 2026! Here’s a collection of news from the TechTransThai Community in this month. Mapping Thailand mrrpmeowfurry did a ten-temple day trip, and mapped them all on OpenStreetMap! Here are all the mapped/updated temples Wat Worachan Wat Phrao Wat Sawang Arom Wat Chee Sukkasem Wat Phihan Daeng Wat Phranon Wat Phra Loi Wat Saraphi Wat Khae Wat Pa Lelai TechTransThai System Operator TechTransThai now has 2 Syncthing relay servers across 2 physical sites. This allows us to have more reliable Syncthing connectivity for the whole region, while also improving combined capacity. Notice the newly added relay at Syncthing Relay stats ...

June 1, 2026 · 2 min · Late Night Defender

TechTransThai Security Research: WAN LAI 2026 Writeup

Welcome to TechTransThai Security Research Writeup of WAN LAI CTF 2026! It’s been a month since the event ended and we’re pretty busy. Anyways, here is the collection of notable solves from the TechTransThai Security Research team in this event. Hidden Website Submitted by 0ii We need to find this hidden website, named “amongnud”. Need to find the exact match for it A quick Google search led to https://amongnud.blogspot.com/, which contained some encoded flag. ...

May 22, 2026 · 1 min · Late Night Defender

April 2026: Improved Security

Welcome to This Month in TechTransThai of April 2026! Here are the collection of news from the TechTransThai Community in this month. Security Research Announcing TechTransThai Security Research: A fresh take on Thailand’s cybersecurity scene. We’re a small group of ethical hackers striving to improve Thailand’s cybersecurity scene, and protect people’s data by reporting to and working with various organizations. Check out the project’s website here: https://www.techtransthai.org/campaigns/security-research iAmTeacher iAmTeacher v0.1.0 is here! ...

May 3, 2026 · 2 min · Late Night Defender

TechTransThai Security Research: UMASSCTF 2026 Writeup

Welcome to TechTransThai Security Research Writeup of UMassCTF 2026! Here is the collection of notable solves from the TechTransThai Security Research team in this event. 图寻 at Home (OSINT; Intermediate) Submitted by Pannarat Wiriyaarritham We’ve been given a set of pictures, with the goal of finding the exact chip model. The flag format is simply the chip name as listed directly on the official website. The interesting part here is that it’s not just looking at the pictures and answer, but we need to check from the place, the company, then finally all the way to the chip model. ...

May 1, 2026 · 4 min · Late Night Defender

March 2026: Completed Translations

Welcome to This Month in TechTransThai of March 2026! Here are the collection of news from the TechTransThai Community in this month. Fifty Shades of Bully Thanks to Late Night Defender, storyline translation progress for Fifty Shades of Bully is now 100% completed. Players can now enjoy the bully visual novel in both Thai and English. Wonderful Mobile Late Night Defender has designed release banners for Wonderful Mobile project, which helps eliminate copyright-related risks that came with the previous banner design. This is how the new banner looks like: ...

April 8, 2026 · 2 min · Late Night Defender

What I got from FOSSASIA Summit 2026

These are the interesting things I found at/got from FOSSASIA Summit 2026. Day 1 (Mar 8) Today is what they call “Community Day”, which was full of talk sessions but no booths. Beyond the Blinky LEDs: Teaching How to Think Like an Engineer This sessions talks about the DIY electronics community making fancy gadgets, such as making a humidity/temperature sensor from ESP32 and putting together a Grafana dashboard. However, there is one big problem with guides found on the internet: they make us follow step by step, without thinking or asking why this needs to be done. ...

March 13, 2026 · 7 min · Late Night Defender

February 2026: Focusing on what matters

Welcome to This Month in TechTransThai of February 2026! Here are the collection of news from the TechTransThai Community in this month. Wellbeing Our project leader, Late Night Defender, is going through changes in professional life. This means she’ll have to balance professional work, open source work and life, which means less time to steer the TechTransThai Community. We’ll be re-prioritizing things, such as finishing near-completed overdue work first. Her current main focus is now on: ...

March 3, 2026 · 2 min · Late Night Defender

How to bypass activation lock on Apple A5 devices

Disclaimer This blog is intended strictly for research and educational purposes. It is not designed for, and must not be used in, production environments or for unlawful activities. The authors and contributors take no responsibility for misuse or for any damage caused to devices, data, or systems. This blog will tell you how to bypass activation lock on devices that use Apple A5 SoC, including iPhone 4s iPod Touch 5 iPad 2 (Wi-Fi) iPad 2 (Wi-Fi/GSM/CDMA and revised) iPad mini 1 (Wi-Fi/GSM/LTE/CDMA/LTE) iPad 3 (Wi-Fi/GSM/CDMA) Prerequisites A computer with Linux or Windows Operating System. A device that use Apple A5 SoC. A cable that can do data transfer. (Avoid 30pin to USB-C adapters) An internet connection. Extra Steps (Windows) Windows require you to install Apple’s driver. I recommended you grabbing 3uTools as it provide the drivers and iTunes (you may need later for music) ...

February 22, 2026 · 4 min · Evelyn

January 2026: Wonderful start

Welcome to This Month in TechTransThai of January 2026! We’re calling this month the Wonderful Month, since we made quite a lot of progress on the Wonderful Mobile project. Meanwhile, other projects are having some progress too. Wonderful Mobile The Wonderful Kernel v0.8 has been released for the Samsung Galaxy A23 5G. This release comes with upstream changes such as upgraded SuSFS, KernelSU Next focusing on improved root hiding and stability. Official documentation is now live, available at TechTransThai Wonderful Mobile Documentation iAmTeacher iAmTeacher v0.0.3 has been released! This release comes with a system in place for supporting more UI languages in the future, along with new UI pages and many UI improvements. PR #22 Fifty Shades of Bully The dialogues formatting are now standardized and now have appropriate backgrounds and sprites! PR #15 Mapping Thailand We mapped at least 4 neighborhoods across Suphan Buri, consisting of villages, school and a temple TechTransThai System Operator Many of our services are hosted on private residential-grade infrastructure, with a dynamic public IP. We have made changes to the daily IP reset, from 2AM every day to 5AM every day at Bangkok local time (GMT+7). That’s all! So, that’s what we’ve been up to for now. Stay tuned for our next blog post via RSS or Telegram!

February 1, 2026 · 2 min · Late Night Defender

Happy New Year 2026: TechTransThai is all of us

2026 is going to be a big year for TechTransThai. We have been making big changes to how our community runs, let’s see what we’ve prepared so far! From Members to Maintainers In the past, we operated on the idea of having a formal list of “TechTransThai Members” with many qualification checks and many barriers in the onboarding process. This made our community felt more like a private organization, which led to things such as having maintainership of multiple projects tied to a single person (me). ...

January 5, 2026 · 2 min · Late Night Defender