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And this is a White House policy, with their official blog post and rationale here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-government https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-... "It is critical that federal websites maintain the highest privacy standards for the users of its online services. With this new action, we are driving faster internet-wide adoption of HTTPS and promoting better privacy standards for the entire browsing public." (Disclaimer: I work on https://https.cio.gov https://https.cio.gov, at GSA.)