content: I bet it is fully encrypted. Asymmetric, with google having the only decryption keys?  Yes.  IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING PUZZLE ISN'T IT?  Not really.  We've been man in the middling SSL for a very, very long time.  There are a lot of ways to spy on that traffic.  Android is open source, so you can even modify the OS to do the spying for you, logging all the traffic.