When you know that Pidgin is storing passwords as cleartext, your first reflex must be to store Tor-bundle on an encrypted storage device. Logging history is secondary compared to clear passwords.
Hannah Schroeter wrote : > Hi! > > (Please don't top-post). > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:07:05PM +0000, M wrote: > >> The pidgin also has an OTR addon, so the point is also privacy along with >> anonymity, and one or the other or both will be compromised in case the usb >> is lost, discovered, left in someones device, etc... >> > > Right. W/o OTR or something like that, you might have anonymity, but at > the prize of being more easily attacked at malicious exit nodes. > > >> Anyways, yes, i can turn it off, but the hundreds of others may not explore >> the settings, or they may not even understand them. >> I fell the settings should be changed so that it does not log by default. >> > > But even then, people really *needing* privacy must think for themselves > anyway. Other default settings may still not be taken as a sign that things > are already safe. And one must always be very conscious about one's > behavior. What does turning logging off help if one conveys information > about one's identity in the *content* of conversations, for example? > > Kind regards, > > Hannah. > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
