Because the US has the silicon valley, historically it invented the internet and modern computers, the US holds most of the core tech companies (intel, AMD, mic

Because the US has the silicon valley, historically it invented the internet and modern computers, the US holds most of the core tech companies (intel, AMD, microsoft, google). The US just have much more expertise and engineers, which is essential if you want the NSA to recruit and be the best at what it does. It has many aspects, I guess cerebral and technical capital are important notions. Even if other countries can compete with the US on cybersecurity, the US is holding most of the data but also is writing most of the software and designing everything around computers, so it makes it trivial for them to turn those products against other countries who buy them. Except linux, I really don't see any computer product that doesn't have critical parts or system made in the US. And as I said I'm certain the NSA can exploit open source very easily since it's a problem with solutions: Torvalds said "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". That is true, but if NSA is supplying eyeballs to find vulnerabilities and use them at their advantage, linux will be an asset for the US.