No, but they should take some precaution if someone unseemly (rogue employee, hacker, etc) has network access. You don't need a NSA level fiber taps under the o

No, but they should take some precaution if someone unseemly (rogue employee, hacker, etc) has network access. You don't need a NSA level fiber taps under the ocean to do packet sniffing. Passing all of their service calls, database replications/connections, etc. in clear text over the wire is just plain lazy, bad security for an operation of their scale and (supposed) sophistication. I am sure it saved them some money on server/load balancers however.