To paraphrase Edison, anything worthwhile is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. The novel md5 collision/windows update propagation is Flame's 1%. The rest is just what's made possible as a result.
It is a cogent reminder of the fragility of the Internet's security infrastructure.
Well, I thought the unreadable, unprocessable, undeleteable file named '.' was rather clever.
It was clever the first time someone did it, but it's old-hat by now