repost: has "data loss" jumped the shark?

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

(note: this was posted to the data loss mail list over 2.5 years ago.  if 
you look at the 2009 monthly graph at http://datalossdb.org/ , reported 
monthly incidents
have been in a steady decline since February.  So... why might this trend 
be occuring?  Please send all replies to the dataloss-discuss list.  You 
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dataloss/2007-02/0050.html

For those of you not familiar with the term in the subject, it harkens
back to an old episode of "Happy Days" where Fonzie revs up his motorcycle
and literally "jumps a shark". Some would argue that from that point on,
"Happy Days" was never the same again; it reached its peak and from there,
it went all downhill.

http://www.jumptheshark.com/

Looking at Attrition's Data Loss web page and Data Loss Database (DLDOS),
I can't help but think of all of the time and research spent on
chronicling these events. 26 million here, 72 there, a couple thousand
here and there. This month (February 2007) alone, the web page and
database have already been updated 17 times... and it's only the 11th of
the month. Other than for hardcore privacy advocates and those who make
their living in the security, identity theft prevention, or risk
management arenas, is it even news anymore? Is data loss really still
worthy of front-page news headlines, or has it become so commonplace that
it should be expected as much as we expect the sun to rise in the morning?

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