Look! I have an SSL cert! You can tell because there's a lock by the url up top, in the address bar. Thwarting the NSA one secure site at a time. What does this mean for you? Anything you do on the forums, site, or whatever will be encrypted from your browser to my server. People watching won't simply be able to read what's going on in plaintext; they would have to decrypt it beforehand, and that's pretty difficult because of the inherent strength of SSL, providing there are no backdoors. This also makes user accounts more secure. Hell, I can't even watch from my own server. It's that secure.

This isn't optional simply because for security to be unsuspicious, security must be the default. The more sites that have SSL turned on by default (Facebook, Google, etc.) the more costly it is to watch people. If they want to make it easy to search your data, It's our job to make it hard for them to get it.