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  1. In reply to: http://census-labs.com/news/2012/02/25/pidgin-otr-info-leak/
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  3. Pidgin is best sandboxed with AppArmor/SELinux/other in any case but to avoid this specific issue with DBUS one may launch Pidgin like so:
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  5. export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=""; pidgin &
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  7. This will stop Pidgin from registering with the DBUS server and the Proof Of Concept above will fail to log conversations.
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