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Misleading title. Nobody did the impossible on iOS, just did clever things within the available frameworks. Well done author, it works. But did you ask yourself
by aeberbach 13y ago
Misleading title. Nobody did the impossible on iOS, just did clever things within the available frameworks. Well done author, it works. But did you ask yourself "should I really do this?"
What I hope is going to prove truly impossible is doing anything like this without requiring the user to explicitly accept the configuration profile. Even so I expect they will trick many into allowing "enhancement" of their email.
LinkedIn has a history of abusing email. From the early days* where they would email all of the contacts on your machine if you didn't read carefully enough to today where you can click unsubscribe many, many times and still get "important updates". It's a wretched hive of scum and recruiters, and they will never get between me and my email.
*spoke too soon! looks like they still do it: http://community.linkedin.com/questions/10106/i-want-linkedin-to-stop-trying-to-access-my-email.html http://community.linkedin.com/questions/10106/i-want-linkedi...
- j_s 13y agoA brief history of LinkedIn's problems as seen here on HN: • LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network (May 9; 326 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680680 • Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account (Jun 18; 137 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5900120 • LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts (Sep 22; 204 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425444 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425444 • Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too (Sep 24; 143 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6433828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6433828