Facebook's opt-in security feature will break web-based Facebook prpl

[Eric Richie]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Zachary West <zacw at adium.im> wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 13:14, Eric Richie <eric at adium.im> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan at adium.im>
>> wrote:
>> > FYI, a message that David Recordon, head of Facebook's open source team,
>> > sent me:
>> >
>> > Begin forwarded message:
>> >
>> > We're going to be rolling out an opt-in security feature which if
>> > enabled
>> > will break the current Facebook sign in within Adium. If users run into
>> > it,
>> > best bet will be to have them re-add their Facebook Chat account
>> > manually
>> > selecting Jabber. Their Jabber ID is username at chat.facebook.com. As it's
>> > opt-in, I think it's worth documenting in a FAQ in terms of how to
>> > connect
>> > to Facebook Chat via Jabber, but hopefully won't be too big of an issue.
>> >
>> > -Evan
>>
>> Any ETA on when the change is going in?  This is going to cause us a
>> LOT of trouble...
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>
> Since it's opt-in, I don't think it will be that problematic.
>
> --
> Zachary West
>

Good call Zac, my bad. Fighting with IE6 all day has fried my brain
and I read that wrong.  I took it as making you opt-in to ENABLE chat.
Not nearly as problematic.

-Eric