"GGC is implemented as a set of servers deployed in your datacenter, remotely managed by Google."
Basically you're leading the greedy little boy Google by the hand to the back door of your house, unlocking the door, and going on about your business. "Don't you go in now, kid".
Feeding the troll, but... many (most?) GGC nodes go in ISP networks, where there are already plenty of other third-party systems (Akamai, Netflix OCA, etc.) and where the traffic is all "hostile" anyway since it's literally the Internet.
Meh, I work for an ISP. We have lots of hosts in our facilities / on our networks that don't belong to us. If we don't manage it ourselves (i.e., if it's not one of our devices / servers), it's considered untrusted -- that includes customer connections, co-located servers, and systems like these. From the ISP point of view, these Google servers are no different than anything else.
It's just evidence-free conspiracy babble and you're making it worse by mentioning Snowden in a misleading attempt to imply they're working with rather than, as Snowden showed, being attacked by the NSA.
More broadly, however, these things are cache nodes – putting one in a data center makes sense but that's not saying you need to give it the privileged access stereokai implied. The win comes from deploying it on the same physical network but you'd still want to firewall it like public internet traffic.
Handing your internal data to Google appliances to process vs redirecting traffic you'd otherwise send to google to their appliances is a "slight" difference, don't you think?
I guess google could be putting bombs in them, but somehow I doubt it...
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