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I don’t think the team has done anything noteworthy by coming up with a hack that increases risks for the end-user (privacy and security come to mind). Addition
by techbubble 13y ago
I don’t think the team has done anything noteworthy by coming up with a hack that increases risks for the end-user (privacy and security come to mind). Additionally, the technique is not new — redirecting email for scanning and possibly injecting additional content is how spam services work. Conceptually, even Chrome plugins do the same thing in your browser.
- Brad2earth 13y agoI can understand the logic that adding any connection to a platform increases security risks--- examples of hacks of multiple platforms via weaknesses in adobe/java/oracle listed here: http://blog.evercontact.com/we-think-the-linkedin-intro-team-deserves-a-thumbs-up-do-you/index.html http://blog.evercontact.com/we-think-the-linkedin-intro-team... I'd say that the funny thing about many "hacks", this one included, is that they indeed seem simple in hindsight, but the team at rapportive was the first to take that creative leap to try something that no one else had in Mail OS.