The BBC is reporting that the email addresses of LinkedIn users can be exposed via a web browser add on. A LinkedIn spokesman told the BBC "We are doing everything we can to shut Sell Hack down. On 31 March LinkedIn's legal team delivered Sell Hack a cease-and-desist letter as a result of several violations"
NCommander adds: Sell Hack is a plugin for Chrome that allows you to retrieve emails from LinkedIn itself. The article goes on to say that Sell Hack is complying with the cease and desist, but actual details remain somewhat light. If anyone is familiar with the inner works of this plugin, I'll amend this article to include the details.
This isn't LinkedIn's first battle with third party services
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 02 2014, @08:45PM
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday April 02 2014, @09:06PM
Mod parent up.
LinkedIn is a ridiculous corporation that screams bloody murder when stuff like this happens.
From all the articles it's abundantly clear they have no idea whatsoever about how to have proper working security with their APIs. With that many security holes and instances of information leakage they need to stop bitching as if it's other people's fault.
It isn't. If you can't stop somebody from getting at the information with stupid low-level hacks you don't belong in the business you are in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 02 2014, @09:14PM
From reading the article it seems to me that linkedins complaint is not actually about the e-mail thingy (which it doesn't seem to extract from linkedin) bu the fact that it harvests the end users linkedin data, it's spyware targeting their platform. Seems like a good thing to object to imo.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday April 02 2014, @09:20PM
You can't go to any Linkedin profile anymore without being redirected to a login/create account page. 100% of the time, when not too long ago they'd at least let you view 1 or 2 profiles without the redirect.
Fuck 'em. If you're good enough at anything except social media you don't need a Linkedin account to get hired anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 02 2014, @09:33PM
Meh, I couldn't care less if they were a NSA funded microsoft developed version of facebook powered by the blood of sacrificed virgins. I've never been to their site, just interested in accurate discussion.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 03 2014, @12:26AM
I'm intrigued by this honorable service powered by sacrificed virgin blood, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday April 02 2014, @10:22PM
Or better yet why not just avoid that clusterfuck? Between the malware, the data breaches, frankly it ought to be obvious to anybody with a functioning brain that LinkenIn is nothing but a piss poor badly run mess, I mean how many times do they have to royally fuck things up before its not worth messing with? if any client of mine asked for a Linkedin link I'd read them the laundry list of fuckups and tell them "I'm sorry but that website simply is too big of a security risk to use in good conscience' and that would be that.
(Score: 2) by TK on Thursday April 03 2014, @10:55AM
Do you happen to have that laundry list on hand?
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum