An easy hack for them to collect their users phone numbers too.
LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
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Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course. They can send as you too, which given their spammy record is quite a huge issue. They will also be storing your IMAP password in plaintext.
Since they are proxying the request, they don't actually have to store the password at all.
Good point :)
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#113I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack". At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying. How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in th…
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
This service shouldn't exist. It breaks the very concept of email security. They're marketing it as though it's safe. Want hyperbole? Imagine Bayer marketing heroin as safe because you know, it's opt-in.
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#114Misleading 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.…
A 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
• Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account (Jun 18; 137 points) 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
• Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too (Sep 24; 143 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6433828
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
This service shouldn't exist. It breaks the very concept of email security. They're marketing it as though it's safe. Want hyperbole? Imagine Bayer marketing heroin as safe because you know, it's opt-in.
Want hyperbole? Compare an opt in social network to heroin.
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#116Certainly an interesting workaround. I'm not that familiar with iOS development, so could someone explain what technical reasons there might be for running a remote imap proxy server to do the message modifications rather than a local (on device) one?
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#117I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack". At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying. How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in th…
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
> Nerd outrage hyperbole much?
How is that even close to a valid response to someone that's exercising critical thinking?
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#118I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack". At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying. How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in th…
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
That's not quite true, in that all the emails I send to people who have opted in are now available to LinkedIn. You have no way of totally opting out without encrypting all your email.
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#119Wow, I am amazed.
Re: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
This service shouldn't exist. It breaks the very concept of email security. They're marketing it as though it's safe. Want hyperbole? Imagine Bayer marketing heroin as safe because you know, it's opt-in.
> It breaks the very concept of email security.
There's no such thing. Email breaks the concept of email security.