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The screenshots of the ascii dump of the RPC calls shown in the WaPo article show that there is tons of information to work with, besides just the email account

The screenshots of the ascii dump of the RPC calls shown in the WaPo article show that there is tons of information to work with, besides just the email account. You're talking about the NSA here, an outfit which has cracked the cryptosystems of foreign governments in a variety of foreign languages, and even cracked a Russian one-time-pad that they had accidental;y used more than once. I don't think it's very hard at all for them to reverse engineer RPC serialization that is not even encrypted if they can crack cryptosystems.

acqq 13y ago
Of course it's not impossible just reverse engineering the protocols but we now know that these guys also rightly measure their smartness by taking shortcuts wherever they can. It would be stupid to do unnecessary work to "rediscover" easily accessible information. The right approach is using the internal documents describing the protocols. Shouldn't be so hard, "it's all in the cloud."