Security issue account pidgin.

[Daniel Atallah]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 16:47, martijn loinkje <martijn9873 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I just found out that my passwords were saved without any encryption in the
> following file:
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> C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\.purple\accounts.xml
> C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Appdata\roaming\.purple\accounts.xml
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> I think this poses an enormous treat. This happened under windows XP and 7
> with MSN messenger.
> Could you please make it so that the file gets encrypted?


See http://d.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords

-D