> And it has nothing to do with any sort of concerns that Google provides the NSA direct access to its servers. > (Google's security engineers can be trusted, I

> And it has nothing to do with any sort of concerns that Google provides the NSA direct access to its servers. > (Google's security engineers can be trusted, I think.) A bit off-topic, but I'm not sure what you mean here. Yes, they can be trusted - to do their job. Which managers dictate. Which includes whatever NSA dictates. So yes, you can bet NSA has total access to everything it wants at Google, direct and total.