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[FIN] This is the end...
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:46:14 +0000 (UTC)
http://attrition.org/news/content/end.html This is the end... April 11, 2008 Lyger Since July 5 2005, Attrition.org has tracked events involving large-scale thefts and loss of personally identifying information (PII). In the months and years since then, we, as well as dozens of volunteers, enthusiasts, and well-wishers have spent literally thousands of hours gathering data, discussing matters related to data breaches, creating web pages and databases, and promoting the idea of security and privacy for personal information. We feel that our combined efforts have been valuable to the security and privacy communities alike, and we hope that efforts like ours will continue to promote awareness, and maybe, some day in the future, actually make a difference. With that said, we're done. Much like Attrition.org's past defacement mirror, the time has come for us to say "no mas". In the past few weeks, it has come to our attention that too many people are more concerned with making a profit off of our work without any offer of acknowledgement or compensation. For those who aren't familiar with Attrition, we're a non-profit hobby site that takes on "projects" as we see fit, when we want to, and when we have time. For those who *are* familiar with Attrition, you probably know that we don't take kindly to being dealt with unfairly. Commercial entities, including "identity-theft prevention" upstarts and book authors, will gladly contact us, ask for information and advice, and then not even offer us the equivalent of a reach-around when selling their materials. We don't pimp our resources to others; they come to us. Unfortunately, more often than not, they won't even send us a "thank you". We've mentioned it in the past, but we're not going to mention it in the future. This is the last mention. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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