That's like saying your bedroom isn't private because some black-helicopter agency could use radar to look through your roof.
While HTTPS does not confer absolute privacy, and it's theoretically possible for a well-financed nation-state to compromise a targeted individual's privacy despite HTTPS, the fact remains that for the other 99.9999999% percent of society it can be considered unbreakable.
Certainly, encouraging widespread adoption of HTTPS is a good idea when the majority of websites are still transmitting login and session credentials in clear text! Even news.yc doesn't enable a secure connection unless you explicitly type https:// in the location bar, and many websites I log in to don't even have HTTPS support.
While HTTPS does not confer absolute privacy, and it's theoretically possible for a well-financed nation-state to compromise a targeted individual's privacy despite HTTPS, the fact remains that for the other 99.9999999% percent of society it can be considered unbreakable.
Certainly, encouraging widespread adoption of HTTPS is a good idea when the majority of websites are still transmitting login and session credentials in clear text! Even news.yc doesn't enable a secure connection unless you explicitly type https:// in the location bar, and many websites I log in to don't even have HTTPS support.