Re: Proposed module: empathy

[Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org>]

Am Donnerstag, den 27.12.2007, 11:52 +0100 schrieb Xavier Claessens:
> Le lundi 24 décembre 2007 à 12:48 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro a
> écrit :
> > I would just like to say that I am concerned about telepathy storing
> > unencrypted passwords in GConf instead of GnomeKeyring.  GNOME modules
> > should be taking security more seriously, IMHO.
> 
> It is not empathy's responsibility to store account parameters,
> MissionControl does that job but unfortunately it does not uses gnome
> keyring :(

I think we shouldn't bless any external dependency that introduces new
security risks (by having to replicate features already existing in
GNOME). So until libmissioncontrol uses gnome-keyring for password
management, I say -1.

Regards,
  Sven