[Adium-devl] URGENT: WSJ Adium review

[Jeffrey Melloy]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:31 AM, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
On a slightly less technical note, all of your personal information is only
saved on your own computer and is protected by Apple's Keychain.  It is only
used to communicate your password to the servers of the various services
(AIM, MSN, GTalk), etc, and is never stored on Adium's servers or any other
machines.

Jeffrey Melloy
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