[xg15]

> Instead they go full blown "please make it go away, if it's visible by us it means it's terrible and dangerous! FOSS is insecure!"

The cynicist in me fears this is how a large part of politics operates:

A lingering problem that is highly visible is bad: Then the public is expecting you to find a solution, and if you don't, it will reflect negatively on your public image, chances of reelection, etc.

In contrast, a massive crisis or catastrophe that occurs (seemingly) out of nowhere is actually good (as long as you aren't affected yourself), because it allows you to appear as the hero, rally people behind a common cause, access a massive amount of additional resources and funding, push through bills for completely unrelated political goals as long as you can somehow relate them to the catastrophe, etc.

This means there is a massive political incentive to push problems under the rug: As long as no one knows the problem is there, all is fine - and if the problem should unexpectedly blow up, that's fine too, because then there will be a "crisis" that you can politically benefit from.

[AstralStorm]

And then some enterprising <insert enemy here> compromises all your infrastructure with a bug they found and nobody else spotted.

The visible bugs get fixed. Invisible ones get used and exploited.