Misleading Security Messages
Congratulations on finding your way to oldtreeland.com.
Don't be fooled if your browser warns that oldtreeland.com
is not secure.
Internet advertising companies that are
associated with internet browsers
obtain no revenue from
non-commercial websites
such as oldtreeland.com.
Big internet businesses have nothing to lose
when they discourage people
from visiting non-commercial websites.
Some browsers seek to enhance their approval ratings
by creating an impression
that the browser valiantly protects
its users from security risks.
It appears that some browsers
may falsely flag security issues
that do not actually exist.
For example,
if a website does not have
an SSL certificate,
then some browsers will use this as an excuse to
warn users that the website is not secure,
which for many non-commercial websites
would be false.
This superficially protective disservice provided by some browsers
even extends to attempting to block the download of files,
such as pdf files that are downloadable from this website.
Messages such as "insecure download blocked" can appear
without being justified by any genuine reason.
Be assured that pdf files downloaded from this website
will always be perfectly safe and secure.
"Duckduckgo" and "Seamonkey" each have free browsers
that do not attempt to block websites such as oldtreeland.com.
Installing one of these browsers might sometimes be useful
for those occasions when your preferred browser
chooses to exhibit any of its nasty habits.
In reality,
many non-commercial non-governmental websites
do not need SSL certificates.
The data encryption that an SSL certificate provides
is not needed by oldtreeland.com
because oldtreeland.com has no user data to be encrypted.
Browsers are in a position to easily test whether
a website contains any fields where users can input data,
but some browsers don't seem to want to bother.
They seem to prefer to mislead their users.
Website oldtreeland.com
is run on a shoestring budget.
An SSL certificate
would more than double the cost of operating
the website.
Because oldtreeland.com does not need an SSL certificate,
oldtreeland.com does not have an SSL certificate.
This does not create any risk for
visitors to oldtreeland.com.
Any warning messages about the security of this website
can safely be ignored.
This website is perfectly safe.
Note: For various reasons,
most websites do need to have
an SSL certificate.
If your browser displays
a security warning
about a website
that expects some input from the user,
especially if the information to be input is something confidential
such as a password or your bank account details,
then the warning message may well be merited,
because the website is probably not the website
that you thought it was,
even if it looks the same
as what you had been expecting.