what is "top posting" ?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:26 PM, G-Lo ♂ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.lo.subber@gmail.com">g.lo.subber@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
When you know that Pidgin is storing passwords as cleartext, your first<br>
reflex must be to store Tor-bundle on an encrypted storage device.<br>
Logging history is secondary compared to clear passwords.<br>
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Hannah Schroeter wrote :<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi!<br>
><br>
> (Please don't top-post).<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:07:05PM +0000, M wrote:<br>
><br>
>> The pidgin also has an OTR addon, so the point is also privacy along with<br>
>> anonymity, and one or the other or both will be compromised in case the usb<br>
>> is lost, discovered, left in someones device, etc...<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Right. W/o OTR or something like that, you might have anonymity, but at<br>
> the prize of being more easily attacked at malicious exit nodes.<br>
><br>
><br>
>> Anyways, yes, i can turn it off, but the hundreds of others may not explore<br>
>> the settings, or they may not even understand them.<br>
>> I fell the settings should be changed so that it does not log by default.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> But even then, people really *needing* privacy must think for themselves<br>
> anyway. Other default settings may still not be taken as a sign that things<br>
> are already safe. And one must always be very conscious about one's<br>
> behavior. What does turning logging off help if one conveys information<br>
> about one's identity in the *content* of conversations, for example?<br>
><br>
> Kind regards,<br>
><br>
> Hannah.<br>
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