This is a victory in a long fight, not just against blanket police surveillance, but also against a culture in which private, for-profit companies build special tools to allow law enforcement to more easily access companies’ users and their data—all of which ultimately undermine their customers’ trust.
If it’s the site that I’m thinking of, they don’t support HTTPS.
It was shodan. Given that the site was already posted, I’m fine with confirming that they do not support https.