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    Posted: Jun/17/2009 at 9:03am

Scattered around organizations, on users’ local machines or on network files
shares, PSTs are a real problem for administrators. Seldom backed up, there
is no control over the content and, in the event of a legal action, there is
little or no chance of effective discovery of the data contained in these
PSTs. 

 
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I wonder how often PST files are targeted in P2P exploits of oversights? I mean if you could grab a PST file off of a few hundred systems worldwide I would imagine you would get quite the collection of credit card aand other personal data.
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Andy - I would say VERY often, probably the most sought after data on a hard drive. That's why you don't use the share entire hard drive option in p2p programs.
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I will take the PST that Outlook uses any day over the way Outlook Express stores files.   WTF
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Outlook Express also seems much more likely to have corruption issues with the mail folders. 
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Outlook Express, oh god, I cringe everytime someone tells me the have data stored in Outlook Express.
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On a somehwat related corruption note. Almost anything can become corrpup. My iPhone photo album is now corrupt and unusuable. The only solution I can find is to resotre from backup or an OS reload. So it's not just Microsoft that can screw you over. LOL
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