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

Fri Oct 25 15:45:40 UTC 2013

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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http://www.bishopfox.com/blog/2013/10/linkedin-intro/

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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