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People will share their whole list because it’s simpler
by create-username 2y ago
People will share their whole list because it’s simpler
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- taneq 2y agoOr because they were tricked. eg. LinkedIn’s “Connect with your contacts” onboarding step which sounds like it’ll check your contacts against existing LinkedIn users but actually spam invites anyone on your contact list that doesn’t have an account.
- wkat4242 2y agoLinkedin is so terribly evil these days. I also see the shenanigans of adding new 'privacy' settings and setting them open by default. Another typical Microsoft ploy by the way.
- noja 2y agoThey were evil before. Previously they’d take your LinkedIn password and try using that to log in to your email account to grab your contacts.
- 55555 2y agoThis sounds absolutely insane.
- dkga 2y agoThis is a big thing, is there any evidence? Not implausible unfortunately…
- saagarjha 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn#Use_of_e-mail_accounts_of_members_for_spam_sending https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn#Use_of_e-mail_account...
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoWasn't this also how some services would connect e.g. your bank accounts? They'd ask for your credentials and log into your bank to scrape its contents. And I kinda get it, some services external to your bank can help you manage your finances etc. But it's why banks should offer APIs where the user can set limited and timed access to these services. In Europe this is PSD2 (Revised Payment Services Directive).
- amanda99 2y agoI think the key point is that they would take your Linkedin password and try to use that on your email without asking you, in case you reused passwords.
- wkat4242 2y agoOk I didn't know that. Very good point. Wow.
- slickytail 2y agoThe linked wikipedia article below says that they asked you for your email password specifically -- is there any evidence that they would try to use your linkedin password itself?
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoThis is how a load of emails were sent out from my Hotmail account to anyone I had ever contacted (including random websites) asking if I want to connect with them to Facebook. The onboarding seemed to imply it would just check to see if any of my contacts were already using facebook.
- jorts 2y agoGod damn this feature. About ten years ago I inadvertently did something in LinkedIn and ended up spamming everyone I knew with LinkedIn invites. It annoyed a lot of people.