The wiretaps accounted for nearly a third of the NSA's daily data intake for its primary intelligence analysis database. Google security team engineer Brandon Downey wrote a post to Google+ indicated that Google was not impressed with the spook’s antics. He wrote "Fuck these guys."
The traffic shown in the slides is now all encrypted and the work the NSA/GCHQ staff did on understanding it, is now ruined. Google did not reveal how the traffic was being encrypted. But Google has been making an effort to encrypt its intra-data centre traffic for over a year as it strove to deal with potential surveillance.
