It only corresponds to what Snowden was revealing about PRISM.
The idea Q mentioned was that the contractor who developed the tools for the NSA PRISM collection system had the keys to create their own version.
PRISM wasn't just a set of tools for data collection/interception - it was an application framework built into computer networks at the operating system kernel level, where possible, and APIs.
Why do you think every web browser is built atop Google's Chrome? Why do you think "update culture" is pushed religiously?