In reply to captainSSL.

"SSL is essential for protection against criminals" who are they exactly? who are the criminals that can wiretap my communication in the ISP and why would he do that when it is much easier and much bigger gain to break into the servers of target, or actually any server at all. How will encrition prevent bad server security that will enable evil guy to use a weak password or will fix exploitable plugins?

And yeh you are right so the will not know what exactly I sold on silk road but for some reason it never prevented the NSA from collecting data about who you called on the phone and when.

The most idiotic part is of course that everybody is being monitored by google and facebook (and twitter and reddit on the tavern) so how exactly will encryption help me to protect myself from those giants? And how hard is it for the US government to search with legal means the DB of google? Totally worth it for any government to have a "mole" in google to be able to easily get the data.

So there is infinitesimal privacy gain for most people while making it much harder for joe sixpack to create and maintain a site by himself with no required technical knowledge. I thought that wordpress was specifically aimed at those people but maybe I was wrong.