When I was young I thought free hackers would always beat government paid hackers. Because super smart hackers are naturally pro-freedom and against big government's secrecy and rights violations.
After growing up and dealing with many kinds of brilliant hackers, all kinds in fact, from hard core US Democrat style liberals, to UK climate change and evolution deniers, I now realize genius hackers come in all political varieties.
And the NSA has some and they are paying them well to work full time. So now I think even in the era of pure information warfare, governments still have the upper hand.
After growing up and dealing with many kinds of brilliant hackers, all kinds in fact, from hard core US Democrat style liberals, to UK climate change and evolution deniers, I now realize genius hackers come in all political varieties.
And the NSA has some and they are paying them well to work full time. So now I think even in the era of pure information warfare, governments still have the upper hand.