[nonchalance]

Read the article:

> Nonetheless, this is truly information that plenty of bad guys probably didn't know, and probably didn't have much of an inkling about. It's likely that many or most of them figured that ordinary commercial crypto provided sufficient protection ...

> Now every bad guy in the world knows for a fact that commercial crypto won't help them, and the ones with even modest smarts will switch to strong crypto techniques that remain unbreakable.

If you accept that most bad guys were using commercial crypto and not strong crypto, NSA may have been tapping communications but now won't be able to

[toyg]

I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that this switch will actually weaken opponents. Criminal masterminds are often not uber-hackers who can reliably roll their own encryption scheme, so to speak.