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I haven't heard of it and I couldn't find the story by these keywords. Can you tell me more? I'm genuinely interested.
by pona-a 1y ago
I haven't heard of it and I couldn't find the story by these keywords. Can you tell me more? I'm genuinely interested.
- tracker1 1y agohttps://marco.org/2013/10/25/linkedin-intro-insecurity https://marco.org/2013/10/25/linkedin-intro-insecurity I don't recall all of the specific details, but I just remember reading about it at the time and how they bypassed some of iOS security protections to do it. Adn that they didn't get perma-banned from the various app stores back then is beyond me. It's a huge part of why I avoid installing apps on my phone in general.
- openmosix 1y agohttps://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...
- openmosix 1y agoA product called "Linkedin Intro" that was killed within 6 months due to backlash and significant security flaws. It was somehow creating a reverse imap proxy to intercept your email traffic, and "decorate" emails with someone's linkedin profile. It was ~12 years ago, so there's not much left around, but here is an engineering blog post from Linkedin talking about how they architected it https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...