[guardian-dev] LinkedIn taking scraping to a whole new level

Josh Steiner josh at vitriolix.com
Thu Oct 24 15:43:09 EDT 2013


First off, their nice product announcement:

http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios

Now some analyses:

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

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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I'm amazed Apple approved this.

-Josh


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