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Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Wed Sep 26 00:01:13 BST 2007


On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:40:39PM -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> I think that's been fixed.
> 
> On 9/25/07, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I heard that the Canonical people were planning to fix the security flaw in
> > Ubuntu, where passwords are kept in plain text.

Huh?  You'll have to be a bit more specific there for me.

But this google result was a disappointment for me about gaim/pidgin:

 http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17964/Insecure-Passwords-on-GaimPidgin/

$ grep password $HOME/.{gaim,pidgin}/accounts.xml

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/



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