There are many reasons why you'd want to setup secure email communications (aka: encryption), especially given recent freedom of speech, privacy, and censorship issues in Western cultures. It is useful and now thanks to Mozilla Thunderbird, it's also very easy to configure and use.
For three years Unibia.net has been collecting web browser and operating system statistics. Today, we look back 3 years into the past at November 2007. Things have change significantly for the better in these last 3 years. Microsoft no longer dominates the web as much as it used to. Many more websites are using established web standards, and as a result, websites have changed significantly in appearance.
Fortunately Internet ads are very easy to block since everything works off of this little thing called DNS. However, some advertisers and publishers have been getting smart. Finding clever ways of detecting such blocks. Publishers such as Hulu have an elaborate (yet simple in concept) method of making sure you look at the ads. Luckily, their is always a way to bypass those detections.
Interestingly, at about 3:00 AM on Sunday April 11 (that is when I noticed it), the WHOIS queries for several high profile domains appear to be hacked. GOOGLE.COM, AMAZON.COM, GODADDY.COM, MICROSOFT.COM, YAHOO.COM, FACEBOOK.COM, etc. Yet several smaller domains, such as UNIBIA.COM, PACYWORLD.COM, VIEWSONIC.COM, and BROADBANDREPORTS.COM are un-affected.
A computer generated image of an upfront view of a green grassy field with a blue sky background. Designed in Adobe Photoshop by me. Free to use and distribute for non-commercial use.
First install the TDMC/Pacy World, LLC. root CA in your browser to enable the ability to load private and secure encrypted content. Then re-open Unibia.net using the secure URL.
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You may also want to kindly send a note to your browser vendor requesting that they install the TDMC/Pacy World, LLC. root CA by default so that you (and others) no longer have to do it manually.
