China did the same but for bigger scale in the past. The reason to do this is to store all traffic for future analysis. Now it is protected by https but there is no protocol or cryptography which couldn't be exploited in the future.
I suggest reporting a bug to Bugzilla. The positive side effect will be you will see how efficiently they handle such reports. And you will get it fixed.
Poland is struggling right now because of huge smog. This makes me believe in this part of an article, which says that higher iodine detection might be caused by accumulation in smog.
