WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin

Does pidgin still save your password in plain text (or base64-ized) in a configuration file in your home? I haven't used them in years because of this, and we also banned it in our company to avoid mistakes.

It would be nice if Whatsapp, which is so popular, would help make its users a lot more secure by adopting end-to-end encryption, perhaps like what TextSecure v2 is using.<p>Getting people to use services with proper encryption is going to be a very slow process unless we convince&#x2F;pressure the big ones to do it.

This is awesome! Must have taken a fair bit of hacking to get working, given WhatsApp&#x27;s policies.<p>Does anyone know if there are mobile apps based on Pidgin? Pidgin&#x2F;Purple solved the multi-chat-client problem so well for the desktop, I&#x27;d love it to do the same on mobile.

If anyone&#x27;s interested in hacking, there are a couple of unofficial APIs:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913300" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6913300</a><p><a href="https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;venomous0x&#x2F;WhatsAPI</a>

will this work on adium?

Pidgin is great. I have all my services hooked up to it: Aim&#x2F;FB(when i had it)&#x2F;Multiple Steam accounts&#x2F;GTalk etc. Really great light weight chat client. Just wish there was a way to get Skype contacts on it.