@micahgoulart I know it's speculation, but I can see it going either way or being a preference setting:
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UPDATE September 28, 8:47 PM:
Seeing the architecture being fully capable on the client and in the cloud, I was hoping the SSL behaviour would be controllable by a preference setting. Turns out according to the Amazon Silk Help page it's proxied by default (no mention of preference setting).