If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone...

Sat Oct 26 12:07:06 UTC 2013

(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 like other dedicated spammers before them -- Spamford comes to mind --
they're quite happy to shift their abuse modality.  (You'll recall that
Spamford tried junk faxing, adware, etc.)  This is certainly a novel
approach, but it's completely in keeping with their "business philosophy".

The response is what will determine whether we'll get more of this
(of course with the self-serving lie that one can always "opt-out").
I do hope that the aggregate reply to this vicious attack on the privacy,
security and integrity of the Internet is met with widespread firewalling
and null-routing -- because if it's not, if this is actually allowed to
succeed, it WILL be copied.

(I'll add "and with legal action", but I'm not an attorney and thus
unqualified to speak to whether litigation is appropriate or even
possible.)

---rsk