I don't think anyone worth a damn as far as this subject is concerned would have labeled you a conspiracy theorist. Anyone with an even passing knowledge of security assumed something of this nature was going on. It just logically follows, given the explosion of computers in every aspect of life, that the NSA would be doing this.
Side note, what black image in a remote area of Utah? If you're talking about the Bluffdale data center, it's been visible on Google maps this entire time IIRC. You can even see historical images of it being built in Google Earth:
I distinctly remember a point when it was not visible. That is how I discovered the plans to build a complex there years ago. This was probably remedied not long after we started catching wind.
I'm sure it would not be difficult for Google, et al. to retroactively "fix" their public imagery data.
I wouldn't rule it out, but I'm left scratching my head as to the motivation why. I remember reading about said data center years ago, before they even broke ground. The location was known at that time, too. If the physical location was of such importance to censor it from satellite images, why then retroactively add those images back in?
Heh, I'm wondering if my memory has muddied a bit and I actually just saw the foundation being laid down, though I'm pretty sure it was black for a while. Either way seeing that sparked my interest and led to me finding out about plans to build a data center, which were largely conjecture and rumor at the time. At that point we really were all a bunch of conspiracy theorists without any hard evidence.
Side note, what black image in a remote area of Utah? If you're talking about the Bluffdale data center, it's been visible on Google maps this entire time IIRC. You can even see historical images of it being built in Google Earth:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.43085,-111.9278303,2900m/dat...