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To play the devil's advocate, how is this any different morally from what Gmail (and Outlook, and Yahoo) do with their external emails feature? In each case, yo
by magic_haze 13y ago
To play the devil's advocate, how is this any different morally from what Gmail (and Outlook, and Yahoo) do with their external emails feature? In each case, you give them the credentials for your other account, they pull the mail and display it in their interface (which, presumably, adds some new features that doesn't exist in the other account. Like conversations and tags.) LinkedIn is doing pretty much the same thing.
- rmrfrmrf 13y agoG-mail/Yahoo: moving your content to your e-mail address. LinkedIn: moving their content to your e-mail address. G-mail/Yahoo: Duplicating your content. LinkedIn: Manipulating your content. G-mail/Yahoo: E-mail providers. LinkedIn: Social media provider. G-mail/Yahoo: uses protocols as intended to provide service. LinkedIn: uses hacks to provide service. G-mail/Yahoo: No risk of compromising devices. LinkedIn: Extreme risk of device compromise. Intentionally circumvents device security features. Multiple potential points of security breach (at proxy server, at web server, through rendering engine). No comparison, really.
- corin_ 13y agoEverything they do differently is irrelevant as long as the user is asking them to do those things. If Gmail starts showing me fetish porn that's bad, if a fetish porn site does the same thing it's fine. The only relevant difference is security/privacy, in which Google may be more trustworthy but even that is debatable, regardless of which side of the debate you land on.
- raverbashing 13y agoOh yes, and if the Linkedin IMAP MITM stops working for some reason I stop getting my emails?