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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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