Passwords

Evan Schoenberg, M.D. evan.s at dreskin.net
Sun Dec 19 16:21:41 EST 2010


Please read http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords for an explanation.

-Evan

On Dec 19, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Adam Berg wrote:

> I noticed that Pidgin doesn't encrypt passwords which are marked as saved. When looking in the accounts.xml, I can see all the passwords to all my accounts, stored as plain text.
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