That explains why your post insinuates that what you typed is true. I really don't get how Apple gets away with calling you guys "Geniuses," guess that title went to your head.
1st. Child Porn. Terrorist threats. Prostitution. Three types of traffic that can and does get people arrested, subpoenaed, and thrown in jail/prison. Law enforcement, and by proxy ISPs, care about traffic other than torrents.
2nd. First, the important thing to understand is how HTTPS and SSL works - mostly through public key/private key verification with certificate issuers like VeriSign. SSL is used to encrypt traffic using those public/private keys as outlined by the 509 standard. It was tried, tested, and true. So why does it not matter?
SSL is broken. Its been broken for some time. How? Through counterfeit certificates, hacks of the actual certificate issuers (
VeriSign in 2008, Comodo in 2011, and probably other undisclosed incidents,) and weaknesses within the different implmentations of the SSL protocol itself (see:,
http://m.networkworld.com/news/2013/031413-ssl-tls-267739.html?mm_ref=https://www.google.com/). So, while a perfect implementation of SSL is theoretically secure, the reality is that weak implementations and an inherent weakness within the entire public/private key structure makes SSL completely susceptible. Thus, any HTTPS using SSL is just as vulnerable as the SSL it uses.
While its not likely that ISPs are going out of their way to infiltrate for every customer they find using torrents, people should know that SSL is not 100% secure and CAN be hacked (you should assume this is true for every single security system.)
3rd. Really? Try using summonthensa.com on your naked connection a few times. Report back to us.
Like I said before. I know a lot more about this stuff than most people. You and your Apple "certifications" included.