Comment Re:misleading headline (Score 1) 130
Those two missions aren't mutually exclusive. Defend yourself at home and go on offense abroad.
It works for bombs and tanks, but not for computer networks and communications. It might have even worked in the time of telegraphs and snail mail letters. But for encryption, it doesn't work. A cipher is either weak, or strong. You can compromise a foreign postal system without affecting the security of your own, but you can't secretly build a backdoor into an encryption algorithm that works only for you.
Simply asserting that something is mutually contradictory because it sounds good to use words like 'cognitive dissonance' isn't any kind of argument.
Now you're trying to reverse the chain of causality just to make a cute finishing sentence.