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Miranda is a well-known and open source instant messenger. It includes support for Jabber, which basically uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). The XML-based protocol allows servers to request certain information from clients.

Sometimes, it is advisable to disallow software to automatically and quietly communicate and reveal certain information to others.

One of those questionable requests is used to gather information about the client software name, version and operating system (e.g. what would be called User-Agent in HTTP).

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