[mattmanser]

Didn't they only encrypt internal traffic after the Snowdon revelation?

[ocdtrekkie]

Specifically, they had point-to-point fiber links between their datacenters that theoretically couldn't be intercepted, so they didn't believe they needed to encrypt data transiting between datacenters.

The NSA proved them wrong on that belief, and they started implementing encryption on those connections.

[UncleMeat]

They started encrypting before the leaks happened.

[mr_spothawk]

I don't remember things happening this way. I remember PRISM announced, then the conversation about all of the internal HTTPS

[mr_spothawk]

Evidently somebody disagrees with me about how that all went down, but doesn't have the time to correct me.