How will we ever get back our casual web browsing experience?

I think this article is extremely spun in the direction of paranoia and fear.

Just because X VPN connections could be "decrypted" doesn't mean that current ones are. Unless there is a report pointing to which VPN connection mechanisms are vulnerable this is silly.

I use VPN with a pre-shared encryption key ( as many people likely do who use Open VPN files... ) I doubt very much that these are vulnerable.

Also, SSH can be broken? If you verify the signature, then I don't think you will have any problem. Most people ignore the signature and could be MITM attacked easily, but if you are serious about security then you will check and SSH will not be a concern.

SSL is broken? There have been so many discussions explaining what is broken here and what is not it is absurd. Suffice it to say, modern SSL implementations are not broken. Many are; if you care, you can make it secure.

Intel Management code is a backdoor? LOL. If so, how can TrueCrypt be a problem? Shouldn't the bad guys be using the backdoor to log all keystrokes or something? The management code is exactly what it sounds like; for diagnostic management. This is like saying that PCI Express slots are a hardware backdoor for reading memory. Theoretically you could hot plug a special device into PCI Express slots in order to read live memory...