https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/bureau-of-meteorology-bom-cyber-hacked-by-foreign-spies/7923770 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/bureau-of-meteorol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/bureau-of-meteorology-bom-cyber-hacked-by-foreign-spies/7923770 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/bureau-of-meteorology... "Bureau of Meteorology hacked by foreign spies in massive malware attack, report shows" Clearly someone has an interest in targeting it - who knows if HTTPS would actually mitigate the risks though. Doubt it would hurt and would not be that difficult. It shows the lack of maintaince in BOM that leads to events like this.