Austin, TX — Giganews, Inc., the world’s leading premium Usenet service
provider, announced today a major advancement in encrypted Usenet access.
Giganews has developed an extremely efficient Usenet encryption service by
utilizing SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption on Giganews’ own proprietary
Usenet platform. Giganews’ deployment of encrypted Usenet access comes in
response to customer feedback, increased encryption support in popular
newsreader programs, and the desire to offer the highest level of security
and privacy possible.

Encrypted Usenet access allows Giganews’ customers to securely and privately
participate in Usenet newsgroups. All data passed from Giganews’ servers to
the customer’s computer is encrypted. This includes all username and password
data, articles, posts, and headers. For the first time, Giganews’ encrypted
Usenet service gives customers security, privacy, and anonymity in a
performance rich environment.

Giganews was able to leverage proprietary technology to implement encrypted
Usenet access on Giganews’ standard Usenet server environment. All Usenet
traffic is encrypted on Giganews’ reader servers and is not passed through
a separate encryption server. This allows Giganews to avoid traffic
congestion and to maintain extremely high levels of redundancy.

We continue to lead the premium Usenet community through our implementation
of in-demand features. Security and privacy are growing concerns among our
customers, so developing encrypted Usenet access was part of a natural
progression,” said Jonah Yokubaitis, CEO of Giganews.

Encrypted Usenet access will be available to all Giganews customers as an
additional service option. Because of the increased bandwidth overhead
required to implement encrypted Usenet access, Giganews is also offering
an additional 10 concurrent connections to customers who add encrypted Usenet
access to their account.

Encrypted Usenet access is the latest in a string of service improvements
implemented by Giganews including multilingual websites, additional bonuses
for referrals, and retention upgrades to 90 days in binary newsgroups.
Frequently asked questions about Giganews’ encrypted Usenet access service
can be found at
http://www.giganews.com/faq.html.

What is encrypted Usenet access?

Encrypted Usenet access utilizes SSL to encrypt all of the information
transmitted between the client and server. Encrypting a connection with SSL
significantly decreases the likelihood of identity theft (via a stolen
username and password) and other online security concerns. SSL is the same
technology used on many web pages that require secure connectivity, such as
online stores or Giganews’ own signup page.

For more information on Giganews, please visit
http://www.giganews.com/.

Giganews is a trademark of Giganews, Inc. All other
trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their
respective owners

In an effort to improve customer experience and communication,
Giganews, Inc. has unveiled support for embedded social bookmarking
and RSS / Atom feeds for its corporate website.

Atom and RSS feeds, collectively known as web feeds, allow Giganews to
distribute news, announcements, and blog posts directly to end
customers. Giganews’ news and announcements are distributed through
the RSS feed found at

http://www.giganews.com/press/recent_news.rss.
Giganews’ blog posts are distributed through the Atom feed found at

http://www.giganews.com/blog/feed/atom.xml
and the RSS feed found at

http://www.giganews.com/blog/feed/rss.xml.

RSS & Atom feeds are commonly read through software known as an
RSS/Atom reader. Some popular newsgroup clients also support RSS/Atom
feeds, so Giganews’ customers will be able to keep up with Giganews’
news and announcements using the same software they use to enjoy
Giganews’ Usenet newsgroup service.

In addition to web feed support, Giganews has also embedded the
ability to ‘tag’ and link interesting content on the Giganews website
through popular social bookmarking sites, such as Digg
(http://www.digg.com), Del.icio.us
(http://del.icio.us) and Technorati
(http://www.technorati.com).
Embedded social bookmarking allows
Giganews’ customers to easily discuss and share their favorite
Giganews content with their peers.

“Web feeds and social bookmarking are increasingly popular methods of
keeping up with news and interesting content from all around the web.
The feeds on our website are yet another way for us to keep our
customers informed of new developments at Giganews,” said Jonah
Yokubaitis, Giganews CEO.

Updating Giganews’ website with the latest in information sharing and
distribution technologies was a natural step for Giganews in a busy
year of service improvements including multiple binary newsgroup
retention upgrades (up to 90 days), text newsgroup retention reaching
over 1100 days, and multi-lingual website support.

Read more about RSS / Atom feeds and Social Bookmarking at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss_feed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

For more information on Giganews, please visit http://www.giganews.com/

Giganews is a trademark of Giganews, Inc. All other
trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their
respective owners