There's a reason I use an email alias if I sign up to places like
that and why I do not place much information on these sites...
There's a reason I maintain somewhere approaching 20 passwords in my
head too and why the password I use for accessing my own systems will
never be the password I use to
(My apologies to those of you who are also on the mailop list and
have already seen these remarks.)
This isn't particularly surprising: LinkedIn are spammers. Have been
since forever. They hit real addresses, fake addresses, mailing lists,
spamtraps, never-existed addresses, everything.
And li
I had to answer the question of "Why is LinkedIn asking for my GMail
account information" to one of my parents recently. "Oh it is so they
can access your information and use it...". It is how some random guys
I play tennis with in a league keep popping up as people I should add,
since they likely
Chris Hartley wrote:
Anyone who has access to logs for their email infrastructure ought
probably to check for authentications to user accounts from linkedin's
servers. Likely, people in your organization are entering their
credentials into linkedin to add to their contact list. Is it a
problem
The other difference is that Google tells you up front, LinkedIn
installed this out of the bleue without any real permissions. Of course
if this where an opt in thing, nobody would be opting in! Well, I never
did install their app and most certainly never will, and am telling all
of my friends abou
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Gary Baribault wrote:
> The other difference is that Google tells you up front, LinkedIn
> installed this out of the bleue without any real permissions. Of course
> if this where an opt in thing, nobody would be opting in! Well, I never
> did install their app and
Scott Howard wrote:
Have you actually confirmed it's NOT opt-in? The screenshots on the
Linked-in engineering blog referenced earlier certainly make it look like
it is.
http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/intro_installer_0.png
Of course, you could argue there's a difference be
On 26. okt. 2013 08:06, Jimmy Hess wrote:
Perhaps a prudent countermeasure would be to redirect all POP, IMAP, and
Webmail access to your corporate mail server from all of LinkedIn's IP
space to a "Honeypot" that will simply log usernames/credentials
attempted.
The list of valid crede
I don't see that happening. I have heard of a couple companies sending out
emails saying installing it violates company IT policies and I'm sure those
using MDM will create policies to disable it.
It's one of those things which should probably just fade into history quietly.
Maybe LinkedIn
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