Correlation does not equal causation.

I don't think it came as a surprise to terrorist organizations that the NSA was working to break their encryption techniques—just as I'm sure it wouldn't have been a surprise to the Soviets during the Cold War.

The group that was surprised and caught off-guard was the American people.

It's been just over a year since the Snowden leaks. Overhauling an entire communication system likely took more than a year. Ground-up rewrites rarely go that well.

This strikes me more as a publicity grab for this firm than any kind of objective science.