Also, Some Paranoia
Couldn't have the whole day filled with joy: assume all your unencrypted internet traffic is being read, because there are published ways to do so without even breaking the rules. And like IPv6 (built to address IPv4 address exhaustion), the corporate world will ignore this until after the problem's costs dwarf the costs to switch.

On the plus side, this makes the whole telecom spying program an expensive public-relations disaster, for little added benefit. Geeks can achieve quietly, and with an only slightly bent protocol, what it takes large (and easily noticed) installation for the government to do. Granted, geeks caused the problem by being too generally trusting, but the same could be said of Americans and the current run-away government. At least the geeks fessed up and are trying to fix the problem publicly.

Encrypt your traffic, folks: HTTPS, GPG, SSH, etc. It's not a panacea (traffic analysis can still say lots about you), but it's a start. Encrypt early, encrypt often, encrypt for fun and profit (or at least, less no-fun and no-profit).