I'm referring to programs like MUSCULAR [1] and PRISM [2] where NSA was tapping inter- and intra-datacenter traffic of major internet communications platforms l

I'm referring to programs like MUSCULAR [1] and PRISM [2] where NSA was tapping inter- and intra-datacenter traffic of major internet communications platforms like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook etc. At the time, that kind of traffic was not encrypted. It was added in a hurry after these revelations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM