More NSA secrets were made public in September, revealing what some media outlets dubbed the NSA's "war on encryption".

From the New York Times:
"The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents."

From the Guardian:
"US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails..."

Some comment and analysis:
Cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University Matthew Green breaks the story down for us in a blog post: ""Let me tell you the story of my tiny brush with the biggest crypto story of the year".

Wired: How a Crypto ‘Backdoor’ Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA.

Open letter from UK Security Researchers.