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What evidence is there that there are groups of nefarious hackers intercepting my shopping session at ToysRUs online store? Why the hell should I be spending my hard earned milliamps on this SSL thing? Certainly if someone wanted to mess with me, they would just whack me on the head in the dark corner of the street.

Intercepting a shopping session gets you a credit card number. Spoofing analytics adds a pageview to a stat you don't even get to see.

You are missing the point. The probability of an exploit being ultra-low or hard to mount is not a valid justification for ignoring it altogether.

No, but it being a rather useless exploit is.

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