LOL well, what are you talking about? SFTP, FTPS?
And what does this question have to do with Rogers?
It is better suited for the Canadian Broadband forum.
I have no idea what you mean by attracts attention. Currently, NO AUTHORITY IS WARENTLESSLY WIRETAPPING YOU (well not legally anyways). Who are you hiding from?
Rogers does not throttle FTP either.
Whatever you do inside an ssl connection is encrypted so the bytes are hidden
BUT
say you request a file at a certain location, the name of that file is not hidden, because the request is sent in plain text.
Similarly, say you log into your email on an https server, then request to connect to the server is not hidden (for example »
gmail.com) but your email is encrypted, and the POST variables like username and password.
Conversely if a secure server uses GET variables they will be sent in plain text, which is not hidden.