I think, you must encrypt all password stored in accounts.xml
Sorry about my best English
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Gaim itself stores the passwords like that. For security, I recommend encrypting your drive with TrueCrypt.
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TrueCrypt
good idea 
Thax very much!
Maybe it would better to have an encryption system of the passwords into Gaim itself. I have many datas on my external hard drive, and I don't want to encrypt my whole hard drive. Many softwares are able to store their own datas encrypted, why not Gaim ?
Gaim has an active user and development community. You can request it. I may be building it into the launcher, too.
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That would be really great. Nevertheless, I'm a little surprised that the encryption of the passwords in the XML file had not been included into Gaim since the beginning.