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The best offense is a good defense. Improving the quality of software in general would be far more beneficial than developing zero-day short-sighted tools.

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I've never heard the phrase "the best offense is a good defense," but I have heard a great many times the phrase "the best defense is a good offense." I don't have any data to back it up, but inclined to believe the more popular form of the statement.

"the best offense is a good defense" - 51,600 Google results

"the best defense is a good offense" - 143,000 Google results, and the only one with a Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_best_defense_is_a_good_off...

That wouldn't help you break into a Russian generals email account to read his email to his mistress saying he's going to Ukraine for a couple weeks.

The CIA isn't even really responsible to cyber defense. They are an offensive spy agency.

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