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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
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(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?
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