Greetings everyone. It is with much regret that I am writing this post. A plugin, ss-otr, was added to the third party plugins list on July 6th. On August 16th we received a report from 0xFFFC0000 that the plugin contained a key logger and shared screen shots with unwanted parties.
We quietly pulled the plugin from the list immediately and started investigating. On August 22nd Johnny Xmas was able to confirm that a keylogger was present.
But even without that you should really (!) not use Pidgin or OTR for XMPP.
I was using trillion in 2000 until I think the freeware started suggesting pro on 2002 and moved to pidgin from then until MSN messenger stopped working one day meaning messengers I had back then got fragmented. I stopped using all messengers shortly after.
Hearing news about pidgin is like a blast from the past.
I was using trillion in 2000 until I think the freeware started suggesting pro on 2002 and moved to pidgin from then until MSN messenger stopped working one day meaning messengers I had back then got fragmented. I stopped using all messengers shortly after.
Hearing news about pidgin is like a blast from the past.