And then of course there was this: http://www.informationweek.com/social-business/social_networking_consumer/li... Linkedin denies the allegations, but I'm convinced there's something to them. I was receiving a steady stream of linkedin invites on behalf of one acquaintance until I marked them as spam. Is Linkedin the kind of organization I would feel comfortable with exposing my email to? Hell to the no! On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Paul WALL <pauldotwall@gmail.com> wrote:
Adding Zaid Ali Khan for feedback.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
I hate to do this, but it's something that anyone managing email servers (or just using a smart phone to update LI) needs to know about. I just saw this on another list I'm on, and I know that there are folks on NANOG that are on LinkedIn.
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LinkedIn released a new product today called Intro. They call it “doing the impossible”, but some might call it “hijacking email”. Why do we say this? Consider the following:
Intro reconfigures your iOS device (e.g. iPhone, iPad) so that all of your emails go through LinkedIn’s servers. You read that right. Once you install the Intro app, all of your emails, both sent and received, are transmitted via LinkedIn’s servers. LinkedIn is forcing all your IMAP and SMTP data through their own servers and then analyzing and scraping your emails for data pertaining to…whatever they feel like.
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Read the full article. If you're using LI via your smart phone, and you have already installed this app, you probably need to save off your contacts and data, and wipe the phone. I wouldn't trust uninstalling as enough, myself. In the long run, I'll be deleting my account.
No, I don't use a smart phone to update any social media. No, I especially do not trust LI (never have, never will). BTW, they're currently adding back any contacts you've deleted. Thanks for reminding me that Joe Barr, Len Sassaman, and Jay D Dyson are gone from this world.
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