 Heya everyone, I thought I posted this here last night, but apparently I didn't.. I regret to inform you that the Screen Shot Off The Record plugin that we linked to briefly was found to have a key logger and was sending screen shots to unwanted parties. So if you have this plugin installed, you will want to remove it immediately. You can see our official post about this at https://pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malicious-plugin/ We are planning a more indepth post in the near future. Our 4th release for the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL is now available. It adds two Bluetooth bug fixes missing from the temporary Android Open Source Project branch for 9th generation Pixels. One of those is a Bluetooth issue we reported. @GrapheneOS How secure is Bluetooth audio on grapheneOS? Will using a Bluetooth speaker open up attack surface? 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@pidgin The plugin seems to be GPL 3 and at https://github.com/jabberplugins/pidgin-screenshare? There are 2 DLLs in the repo though, libotr and zlib. So maybe the plugin is fine if you throw away those two files?
@pidgin You did post last night. I replied that ss-otr was an appropriate name - as it stands for Social Security On The Record in a US govt context.