[Infowarrior] - Fwd: [Dataloss] Has "Data Loss" Jumped The Shark?

[Richard Forno]

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> From: lyger <lyger at attrition.org>
> Date: October 13, 2009 2:00:33 PM EDT
> To: dataloss <dataloss at datalossdb.org>, dataloss-discuss <dataloss-discuss at datalossdb.org 
> >
> Subject: [Dataloss] Has "Data Loss" Jumped The Shark?
>
>
> http://datalossdb.org/incident_highlights/38-has-data-loss-jumped-the-shark
>
> For those who aren't familiar with it, the phrase "jump the shark"
> originates with an episode of the American TV series "Happy Days",  
> where
> one of the primary characters, Fonzie, literally (at least in the  
> show)
> jumps over a shark while on water skis. The episode was designed as a
> desperate attempt to draw in viewers since the overall content of  
> the show
> had become rather, well, "bleh". Things were never the same after that
> episode, and it was generally concluded that once Fonzie "jumped the
> shark", the show really had nowhere else to go but up.
>
> But it never did.
>
> About six weeks ago, I reposted a question sent to the Data Loss  
> mail list
> from an earlier post made over two years prior asking the same  
> question.
> To date, the replies we have received can be counted on one hand,  
> but the
> evidence shown at the top of the main DataLossDB page is somewhat  
> clear:
> for the last several months, we (meaning OSF) have received less  
> reports
> and have seen less news about breaches involving personally  
> identifying
> information. One or two people have questioned why, and the answer is
> simple: we don't know. We still look for news, we still post what we  
> find,
> but the decrease in events since the beginning of the year... well, we
> just don't know.
>
> [...]
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