But it does. It's harder to have good security when all the normal solutions suck - they've all been poisoned. Its like when somebody told it's bad to be the most ambitious person in the room - it takes more effort to stand out than to blend in. If your the most ambitious one, merely being the in that state has a dampening effe.
I'm not sure I get the analogy to being the most ambitious person in the room. I think you mean that relative to intelligence agencies (not just US intelligence) and the most elite hacking groups domestic computers are products are not up to snuff?
I'm not sure that top intelligence agencies backdooring products has really made that gap so much worse.
I sorry I don't think I fully understood your point.
