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[ PRIVACY Forum ] New LinkedIn service wants to proxy all your email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Wed Oct 23 20:23:35 2013
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New LinkedIn service wants to proxy all your email
http://j.mp/1ceCtUQ (LinkedIn)
"Our key insight was this: we cannot extend the mail client, but we can
add information to the messages themselves. One way to do this would
be to modify the messages on the server - but then the modification
would appear on all your clients, both desktop and mobile. That would
not be what users want. Instead, we can add information to messages
by using a proxy server."
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The thought of routing all my email through a LinkedIn proxy seems
more like a nightmare than a service.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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