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Remove Warning on Adium, Add CoyIM
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The Adium client seems to be in active development again. Since October 2019 developers including original developers [are active again](https://hg.adium.im/adium).  I also added CoyIM that is quite nice (built-in OTR and Tor-Support).
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movd authored Nov 16, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1390,11 +1390,9 @@ You can use OTR on top of any existing [XMPP](https://xmpp.org/about) chat servi

The first time you start a conversation with someone new, you'll be asked to verify their public key fingerprint. Make sure to do this in person or by some other secure means (e.g. GPG encrypted mail).

A popular macOS GUI client for XMPP and other chat protocols is [Adium](https://adium.im/).
A popular macOS GUI client for XMPP and other chat protocols is [Adium](https://adium.im/).

**Important** While popular, Adium does not appear to be actively developed and may have vulnerabilities. See additional discussion in [issue #299](https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/issues/299).

Other XMPP clients include [profanity](http://www.profanity.im/) and [agl/xmpp-client](https://github.com/agl/xmpp-client).
Other XMPP clients include [profanity](http://www.profanity.im/) and [agl/xmpp-client](https://github.com/agl/xmpp-client). Another relatively new XMPP chat client is [CoyIM](https://coy.im/), it's focused and security and has built-in support for OTR and Tor.

If you want to know how OTR works, read the paper [Off-the-Record Communication, or, Why Not To Use PGP](https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf) (pdf)

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