I generally agree with you about claims regarding full (root) access to Google&#x27;s servers, but in this case it&#x27;s a weaker claim about the network. One might quibble whether tapping without injection counts as full access, but that&#x27;s a reasonable claim without too much hyperbole. Maybe the NSA didn&#x27;t have hooks into every switch, but Google&#x27;s network design also meant a lot of data was flowing beyond the boundaries of any one physical site.