[Adium-devl] URGENT: WSJ Adium review

[David Smith]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>> A couple additional questions:
>>
>> 1.       What types of privacy protection do you offer to guarantee
>> that people can give you their IM username and password without fear
>> of you giving that information to others?
>
> Adium is open-source software. This means that anybody can read the
> code that makes Adium, and determine for themselves whether it reveals
> users' secrets. If we were ever to make Adium do such a thing, someone
> would catch it.

One additional point here; there are enough people running packet  
analyzers on Adium's network traffic (for debugging IM servers,  
tracking down connectivity problems, or at the recent XMPP  
interoperability meeting at OSCON) that if it were sending something  
it shouldn't be, it'd be pretty easy to spot.

								David Smith