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Guaranteed to be secure? Are you joking? Aside from the fact that nothing is guaranteed to be anything in the security world, if you go read the documents put out by Snowden there just no way you'd say that.

More like it is that there are any number of zero days floating around at all times many of which Google doesn't know, and the government itself is regularly taking data from these companies and then gagging them, and when that doesn't work, rooting them directly.

Outside countries are just as susceptible to hacking, but they can't be as easily made into gagged cooperators.

And google may have a lot of smart people but they have a collossal attack surface due to sheer size and product offerings. And they're made of humans. They run hackathons soliciting bugs and regularly find them. No one is perfect, definitely not google.

The overall security picture out there is grim, and it's very rational for people to control the risks they can and part of that is using outside of the US services