No it explicitly asks if you'd like Linkedin to search your email contacts by filling out the email address and password fields below. It pre-populates the emai

No it explicitly asks if you'd like Linkedin to search your email contacts by filling out the email address and password fields below. It pre-populates the email address from your linkedin email login address. Thus without reading what the fields are for, it's very easy to assume you've simply been logged out of Linkedin and need to re-log-in. Upon doing so Linkedin will try one time to login to your email (Gmail and other web email clients do this too -- to grab contacts from older email accounts but they don't use this phishing-style approach). If your email password happens to be your Linkedin password, Linkedin will have access to your email contacts without you realizing it. And more embarrassing: Linkedin may send an email to your contacts mentioning you (they used to do this, maybe not as much anymore). Don't you remember getting all those Linkedin invite emails from your 'friends'? how do you think those got sent? Do you really think your friends intentionally typed in your email address so Linkedin could spam you?