Rachelle Power wrote:
How can history be deleted for good?
I assume you mean that very small part of history stored in Pidgin's record of chats for which it was used, and stored on your PC.
You will need to mechanically destroy and then incinerate the machines hard disks and any backup media, USB keys, etc, onto which the data may have leaked.
If you can tolerate some possibility of recovery with specialist tools, there are programs available, free from Microsoft, for Windows, and from standard sources for Unix-like systems, that will make multiple overwrite passes, including random data. You will need to erase, the actual history files, all unused space on the disk, and the swap space.
For protection against casual access, and assuming a default installation, on Windows, they are under %APPDATA%\.purple\logs and and for Unix-like systems, I believe they are under ~/.purple/logs, where % and ~ have the standard meaning for command line shells on those systems.
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