[tor-talk] TorBirdy and Thunderbird chat

[Mirimir]

On 09/24/2014 06:24 AM, Akater wrote:
> TorBirdy disables chat logging and some other chat options:
> 
>> // Thunderbird 15 introduces the chat feature so disable the 
>> preferences below. "purple.logging.log_chats": false, 
>> "purple.logging.log_ims": false, "purple.logging.log_system":
>> false, "purple.conversations.im.send_typing": false,
> 
>> // Messenger related preferences. // Do not report idle. 
>> "messenger.status.reportIdle": false, 
>> "messenger.status.awayWhenIdle": false, // Set the following
>> preferences to empty strings. 
>> "messenger.status.defaultIdleAwayMessage": "", 
>> "messenger.status.userDisplayName": ""
> 
> 
> 1) Why disable chat logging?
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy/preferences
> offers no explanation. Whatever the reason was, why not disable mail
> archives too, then?

Anything sensitive in mail archives should be encrypted, no? Chat
streams are encrypted, but local archives are plaintext. Maybe a better
solution would be to encrypt chat archives with users' GnuPG keys?

> 2) How do I overwrite these preferences?

Tweak source and compile?