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I am sure there are people there who do care about security and this is a victory, but it is a small one and not one that really saves their reputation.

The problem is that the NSA presumably gets access to the information before it is encrypted, so this does not limit what the NSA can get from Google. What it does do though is possibly cloud the traffic to some extent regarding cracking stuff, but then the NSA could probably just disregard the traffic between data centers.

The real victory is that other companies are more likely to follow Google and this may have an impact.