From the article:
The US government and European Banking authorities are looking at regulating the use of the crypto-currency, and are particularly concerned about how the Dark Wallet could be used as a money laundering tool.
So this is how they play it: demonize darkwallet and its developers and users or any similar software that pops up. So long as they can keep it a niche thing, then bitcoin remains trackable and therefore controllable. Anyone found to be using anonymous tech is automaticallly "bad". Eventually use itself may be a crime. ( 2 legs bad, four legs good )
The obvious way to prevent this from happening is to bake strong privacy into the bitcoin protocol itself, so that users are are engaging in anonymous transactions by default. When everyone is doing it, no one is a target.
The longer we wait and pretend that pseudo-anonymity is sufficient, the more we as a community are playing into the hands of those who would track and control us.
It is time that we wake up and make real anonymity top priority.
If Bitcoin devs won't embrace financial privacy, then we'd better start supporting altcoins that do.