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Friends don't let friends use libpurple based messengers. Sadly, Adium development is pretty stale and unresponsive to even major security issues such as https://threatpost.com/code-execution-vulnerability-found-in-libpurple-im-library/124448/ https://threatpost.com/code-execution-vulnerability-found-in...