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What does the leak mean?

It means, that if you, in the years 2013-2016, owned

• a Samsung Smart TV (recording conversations in the room and sending them [..] to a covert CIA server)
• a iOS or Android phone (geolocation, audio and text communications as well as covertly activate the phone's camera and microphone; 24 weaponized Android Zero-Days in 2016)
• a Windows computer (especially big arsenal for any situation: Zero-Days, Hammer Drill, Brutal Kangaroo, Assassin, Medusa,...)
• internet infrastructure
• webservers
• Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and more

, you could be spied on and anything you encrypted over the internet could be read before encryption happened. Also, you could have mysteriously got killed, because of

• backdoored vehicle control systems

Also:

CIA hackers developed successful attacks against most well known anti-virus programs.

Source

How can we stop this?

The only way to do so is write secure applications with cryptography first, UX/performance second. In order to write secure applications, more people would have to study the subject and implement correct algorithms and use better memory management (which is one of the most used bugs). Also configurations should be done carefully, ideally by an expert (not some random guy who has read a tutorial online)

That's one of the reasons why I love Redox. It is based on the memory-secure Rust-Lang and tries to clean up lots of UNIX clutter. I am following the project development and hope that I can replace my Linux with Redox one day (PC, laptop and phone)