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Malware Infiltrates Pidgin Messenger's Official Plugin Repository
Saturday August 31, 2024. 12:02 AM , from Slashdot
After publishing our story, Pidgin's maintainer and lead developer, Gary Kramlich, notified us on Mastodon to say that they do not keep track of how many times a plugin is installed. To prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, Pidgin announced that, from now on, it will only accept third-party plugins that have an OSI Approved Open Source License, allowing scrutiny into their code and internal functionality. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/08/30/2047211/malware-infiltrates-pidgin-messengers-official-plugin...
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