Flame is Lame 
I think tptacek has hummed a few bars in this direction before, but it has become received wisdom on some parts of the Internet that geeks vs. government is an asymmetric fight and that since governments are stupid geeks will win.  You often see this in, let me cherry pick out of charitability, threads suggesting that the OSS community develop surveillance countermeasures for use by dissidents subject to certifiably evil regimes.<p>It doesn't really matter whether the nation state in question is Iran or the United States.  Do not pick fights with people who can respond to a hacking incident by writing a check for $5 million dollars to a defense contractor and consider that low-intensity conflict resolution.  It will not end well.