Opinion: Governments don't want IT security, they want to have cyber weapons
Support for the above claim:
nsa leak shadow crew. E.g. see
NSA Hacked? 'Shadow Brokers' Crew Claims Compromise Of Surveillance
Op"hacking team" leak, E.g.
Hacking Team Leak Shows How Secretive Zero-Day Exploit Sales
WorkIt provides both the exploits and RCS to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world, and has come under attack for selling to repressive regimes, who've used them to target political activists and dissidents. But more interesting than the fact that the company possessed zero days---this was already known---is the correspondence around how Hacking Team acquired these valuable tools, prized equally by criminal hackers and government intelligence agencies.
pegasus spying scandal.
The
allegations that spy software known as Pegasus may have been used
to carry out surveillance on journalists, activists - and even
perhaps political leaders - highlights that surveillance is now for
sale.If governments wanted security, they would report the bugs to the vendors.
Like in traditional warfare, cyber warfare requires weapons. It is very hard to construct physical nuclear bomb, but to construct cyber nuclear bomb requires just skills and zero budget. Some drunk skilled kid may do a lot of damage in the real world.
Who watches the watchers?