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You and I are educated enough about web security that we know not to type one site's password into another site. Many people aren't. Phishing is a real proble
by dripton 13y ago
You and I are educated enough about web security that we know not to type one site's password into another site.
Many people aren't. Phishing is a real problem.
When "legitimate" sites start doing slimy, insecure things like asking for third-party passwords, three things happen. One, those "legitimate" sites have the power to do things that most users don't really want them to, like spam their entire contact list as them. Two, it becomes harder for unsophisticated users to distinguish legitimate sites from phishing sites. Three, it means that if a criminal breaks into a "legitimate" site, there's more valuable information there for him to steal.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoCompletely agree, the confusing bit then is the call to action, instead of "Help me educate LinkedIn" its "I'm deleting my account." Does the author want to fix LinkedIn? Do they want a different service (or the same service done differently?) or a nearly the same service? It is easy to be dismissive of this form of rant, and sometimes that is actually the best response. But if there is something to learn here[1] that would be good too. I suspect I'm overthinking it and the author was just venting. [1] I get the 'here is another exemplar of stupid design' thought as well.
- thedufer 13y agoHe says pretty explicitly why he deleted his account: > They should know better than to put their marketing plans ahead of their users' security. They're not going to learn about security until it costs them users. So, scratch one user. I think this is a reasonable justification, and I imagine the point was to get others to do the same.
- genofon 13y agothe call to action it's up to you I guess, the author exposed some annoying, dishonest and potentially dangerous interaction that LinkedIn is using. when you read the news do you ask yourself: "what's the call to action of this article?"
- ChuckMcM 13y agowhen you read the news do you ask yourself: "what's the call to action of this article?" Always.
- dripton 13y agoI've given up on LinkedIn. They had a high-profile breach less than a year ago and they're still doing insecure things like this. Either they don't know or they don't care. So I'm setting the permanent bozo bit on their company. Do I expect this to accomplish much? Not really. But I'm no longer part of the problem.