[Bruce Schneier, in **2010**, for CNN][1]:

> In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access.

This was written before we knew about 90% of the NSA dragnet, Yet here is [Google’s statement, from CEO Larry Page, on PRISM (circa 6/2013)][2]:

> First, we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. Indeed, the U.S. government does not have direct access or a “back door” to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.

Perhaps Page needs to clarify that just the Chinese have direct access to that backdoor? ((By the way, why are you still using Gmail?))

[1]: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html
[2]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html