You're not wrong, but you are also lumping "old hams" into the same category as "hams that use computers". While the old dudes can certainly fox-hunt like no bodies business, they are the same dudes that get irate at the idea of hooking a perfectly good ham radio up to a computer, so that rules them out for figuring out something like ssl is being used ;-P.

If you think I'm wrong, just walk around any ham fest and ask for help setting up your Winlink node ;-).