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>HTTPS Everywhere noticed you were navigating to a non-HTTPS page, and tried to send you to the HTTPS version instead. The HTTPS version is unavailable.

Pretty much inexcusable for any company in 2019 (although, I run into this quite a bit...) let alone a tech-orientated one.

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1. It's not a company

2. There is nothing on the page worth protecting with HTTPS

1. Replace "company" with "website".

2. It's the standard moving forward.

Without ssl, someone could hypothetically intercept it, modify the instructions slightly, and lead you to installing something malicious. They could also do other things like inject javascript, etc.

They have http listener on 443 port. Probably misconfiguration.

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