How safe is Usenet without SSL?

[Hypatia]

it must be made clear to those corporation thugs that they are not untouchable. We all live under the same sky and from time to time there are "things" falling down on our heads, oh yes.
That corrupted and crooked FBI backing them, bent judges and millions of criminally obtained dollars don't mean squat.They are not invincible.
Freedom wlll prevail as always. Even if it takes hundreds of years