Encrypting the traffic would only have made it marginally more difficult to intercept (https://portswigger.net/burp/help/proxy_options_installingcacert.html htt

Encrypting the traffic would only have made it marginally more difficult to intercept (https://portswigger.net/burp/help/proxy_options_installingcacert.html https://portswigger.net/burp/help/proxy_options_installingca...). Also, the guy got 400k downloads, sometimes you don't need "smart".