[mtgx]

That's some bad advice all around.

If everyone thought like that we wouldn't even have HTTPS because "why would you want to hide your internet traffic?!"

"Hiding in plain sight" doesn't work. At all. The NSA has automatic systems that classify everything you do online and then it issues alerts if enough "signals" are gathered. That also means that the more stuff you do in "plain sight" the better it will know what you're doing, as the data will have very high accuracy rates.

[runeb]

Thats not the only reason to use HTTPS though. It is just as important to be able to ensure you are communicating with the server you think you are.