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Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Sat Oct 26 16:23:59 2013
In-Reply-To: <526BF1CE.6000701@baribault.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:23:15 +0300
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Gary Baribault <gary@baribault.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Gary Baribault <gary@baribault.net> wrote:
> The other difference is that Google tells you up front, LinkedIn
> installed this out of the bleue without any real permissions. Of course
> if this where an opt in thing, nobody would be opting in! Well, I never
> did install their app and most certainly never will, and am telling all
> of my friends about this as well.
>
Have you actually confirmed it's NOT opt-in? The screenshots on the
Linked-in engineering blog referenced earlier certainly make it look like
it is.
http://engineering.linkedin.com/sites/default/files/intro_installer_0.png
Of course, you could argue there's a difference between opting-in for
"enhancing your email with Intro" and opting-in for "Please MITM all of my
email and dynamic modify it", but that's really just semantics - it
definitely appears to be opt-in.
Scott
