[tor-bugs] #1676 [Tor bundles/installation]: Audit jabber/XMPP support for pidgin

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#1676: Audit jabber/XMPP support for pidgin
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 Reporter:  katmagic                  |          Owner:  ioerror 
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  critical                  |      Milestone:          
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:          
 Keywords:  pidgin, DNS               |         Parent:  #2918   
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by erinn):

 I tested the latest Pidgin release (2.8.0) with the Tor proxy option added
 and while it can be set globally, you can only force encrypted logins on a
 per-account basis. Robert pointed out on IRC that it would be difficult to
 have a globally set option for this in Pidgin because of the variation in
 protocol specificities, but we should ask the Pidgin developers if there's
 any way to pre-seed it for a few IM types (our initial re-integration
 ones: GTalk, AIM, and XMPP), either by having a dummy accounts.xml or some
 other way.

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