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Let Pidgin use Gnome keyring for storing passwords

Written by hagnf the 19 Jun 08 at 20:17. Category: Security. Related to: Nothing/Others. New

Pidgin saves account passwords in plain text (check the contents of ~/.purple/accounts.xml )

Saving passwords in plain text is wrong! The Gnome keyring is a perfect replacement for this insecure method and should be used.

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