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by mablopoule 1101 days ago
I don't know if there is a name for it, but this is a plague for every security-related thing, or any jobs where the more skilled you are, the more people forget you (like a sound engineer for a movie production).

An ex-director of a French national security agency complained about exactly that during an interview, that you get more budget after a terrorist attack, or after you stop one that was well under way, but never if you avoided the condition to create a terrorist cell altogether, or nipped it in the bud.