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riffraff
on Aug 7, 2012
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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic...
this is crazy, doesn't every current linux distro already have a keychain-like-thingy which is protected by the user password? Adium (which is also based on libpurple) uses it on the mac, which means there is no plaintext password lying around.
gsa
on Aug 7, 2012
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There is - GNOME has Keyring, KDE has Wallet. But apps need to support it or have a plugin system for that. Pidgin has plugins for GNOME and Windows:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins#Securityan...
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