GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 684675
private-chat-$UUID rooms are created with default (i.e. public) settings
Last modified: 2012-09-25 07:32:29 UTC
In case the XMPP server supports MUC, empathy will create the room called private-chat-$UUID following GTalk, however it is created with default settings and therefore is publicly visible in the conference list and open to everybody to join. GTalk server does not list the available conferences (and it is using custom XMPP MUC settings) but other XMPP servers have a directory of current chats. The "private-chat-..." created in Empathy will be completely open for public.
Good catch, thanks for the report.
Created attachment 225044 [details] [review] tp-chat: set Private and InviteOnly props on conference channels Only the person invited are suppose to join these channels so tweak their settings to make them more secure.
Comment on attachment 225044 [details] [review] tp-chat: set Private and InviteOnly props on conference channels Approved by Xavier on IRC. I'll merge once the hard code freeze is over.
Merged, will be in 3.6.1 Attachment 225044 [details] pushed as b399609 - tp-chat: set Private and InviteOnly props on conference channels