alt Hacker News> You also democratize defense.
not really - defense is harder than offence.
Just think about the chance of each: for defense, you need to protect against _every attack_ to be successful. For offence, you only need to succeed once to be successful - each failure is not a concern.
Therefore, the threat is asymmetric.
Is defense take that hard? The majority of successful attacks seem to result from ignoring basic best practices. Just total laziness and incompetence by the victims.