>Namely their storage of plaintext passwords in your ~/ Personally, I don't see this as terribly bad. An attacker with physical access can do a lot more damage

>Namely their storage of plaintext passwords in your ~/ Personally, I don't see this as terribly bad. An attacker with physical access can do a lot more damage than just discovering your XMPP credentials, and if that's all they were looking for, they could just replace the Pidgin binary to send the credentials in plaintext to Moldova the next time you launched it. You need full-disk encryption to really not be affected by this. However, libpurple is a sea of zero-days. It's a library made to deal with input over the network written in C, which is really enough to be damning. There's far, far worse in libpurple than storing plaintext passwords.