default setting in pidgin

[M]

what is "top posting" ?

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:26 PM, G-Lo ♂ <g.lo.subber at gmail.com> wrote:

> When you know that Pidgin is storing passwords as cleartext, your first
> reflex must be to store Tor-bundle on an encrypted storage device.
> Logging history is secondary compared to clear passwords.
>
> Hannah Schroeter wrote :
> > Hi!
> >
> > (Please don't top-post).
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:07:05PM +0000, M wrote:
> >
> >> The pidgin also has an OTR addon, so the point is also privacy along
> with
> >> anonymity, and one or the other or both will be compromised in case the
> usb
> >> is lost, discovered, left in someones device, etc...
> >>
> >
> > Right. W/o OTR or something like that, you might have anonymity, but at
> > the prize of being more easily attacked at malicious exit nodes.
> >
> >
> >> Anyways, yes, i can turn it off, but the hundreds of others may not
> explore
> >> the settings, or they may not even understand them.
> >> I fell the settings should be changed so that it does not log by
> default.
> >>
> >
> > But even then, people really *needing* privacy must think for themselves
> > anyway. Other default settings may still not be taken as a sign that
> things
> > are already safe. And one must always be very conscious about one's
> > behavior. What does turning logging off help if one conveys information
> > about one's identity in the *content* of conversations, for example?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Hannah.
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