Star Insecure Passwords on Gaim/Pidgin
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 23rd May 2007 00:46 UTC
Privacy, Security, Encryption Today, while I was trying to create a SIP Presence account for VoIPBuster, Pidgin kept crashing. I had to find its settings in my personal folder in order to manually edit the accounts.xml file and remove the entry (so Pidgin could start up again normally instead of keep crashing on load). When I opened the accounts.xml file with a plain text editor, all the passwords of all my accounts were listed out in the open in plain text. This is not a new issue, it was discussed many times before, but it can still be a surprise for most users.
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RE[2]: rw access
by BluenoseJake on Wed 23rd May 2007 15:12 UTC in reply to "RE: rw access"
BluenoseJake
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2005-08-11

Except that most people run as Administrativve accounts in Windows, so anyone can read it.

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RE[3]: rw access
by Spellcheck on Thu 24th May 2007 07:19 in reply to "RE[2]: rw access"
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2007-01-20

No, that would mean "most accounts" could read it.

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RE[4]: rw access
by BluenoseJake on Thu 24th May 2007 09:57 in reply to "RE[3]: rw access"
BluenoseJake Member since:
2005-08-11

I hope you language lawyers don't charge a retainer

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