Greetings everyone. It is with much regret that I am writing this post. A plugin, ss-otr, was added to the third party plugins list on July 6th. On August 16th we received a report from 0xFFFC0000 that the plugin contained a key logger and shared screen shots with unwanted parties.
We quietly pulled the plugin from the list immediately and started investigating. On August 22nd Johnny Xmas was able to confirm that a keylogger was present.
Was the plugin open source?
Edit: looks like it wasn’t and the incident has prompted more more transparency. Good stuff.
Unless the pidgin team are compiling the binaries themselves, this doesn’t really fix much.
Ideally we need reproducible builds.
Its really not hard for them to compile themselves. This is what most package managers do