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Ha, I'm a bit less surprised than you :) Microsoft's crappy products are widely used in the corporate world, and are a massive PITA to migrate away from. For
by cypherpunks01 16y ago
Ha, I'm a bit less surprised than you :)
Microsoft's crappy products are widely used in the corporate world, and are a massive PITA to migrate away from. For such a huge system like the military's, I'm sure a microsoft salesperson convinced some less-than-well-informed military purchaser to store their data in an arbitrary secret microsoft format many years ago, and things were just never changed.
- ergo98 16y agoNot sure what value the derogatory comments about Microsoft brings. Exporting data from a PST is trivial, whether using the supplied tools or using script access. They obviously use PSTs because somehow it works for them.
- xxpor 16y agoNo, clearly it doesn't.
- ergo98 16y agoJust to be clear, they knowingly granted him full access to all of this data (ergo, all of these PSTs). This falls completely under the auspices of "user error", and PST is no more to blame than if they granted administrator access to every user. This is a boring argument that only takes place because people can throw down the tired, unsupported "damn that Microsoft!" card. Sorry, but the reality is more correctly "Damn the intelligence community and inept safeguards and data controls."
- Groxx 16y agos/works/worked/ The desire to keep doing what used to work, in the face of better alternatives, seems to drive most governmental decisions. Not that they're entirely illogical in doing so. It got them where they are, didn't it?