[Pidgin] #11070: Pidgin spammed my chats with a "Happy New Year!" message

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#11070: Pidgin spammed my chats with a "Happy New Year!" message
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 Reporter:  avdi          |     Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  defect        |    Status:  new       
Component:  unclassified  |   Version:  2.6.2     
 Keywords:                |  
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 Last night I opened my laptop briefly to watch the ball drop on Hulu.
 This morning when looking at my chat logs I found that at 12:00:15EST "I"
 wrote identical "Happy New Year!" messages to every open chat window.
 This included both IRC windows and IM windows.

 I never touched Pidgin while I had my laptop open at midnight. I closed it
 immediately after and no one else used it.  And anyway I'm not even aware
 of a Pidgin feature that would let someone type the same message to every
 open window at the exact same time.

 Is this some kind of "easter egg"?

 I'll be discontinuing my use of Pidgin at least until I can get to the
 bottom of this.  I can't trust a chat client that pulls this kind of
 stunt.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11070>
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