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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by justinclift on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:09PM (#11045022)
Hopefully you've learned something important about not giving your login credentials for any service, to another service. ;)

[And yeah, I'm aware of people doing this for other services too, eg financial account management. Expecting they'll become further anecdotes later one... :(]

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by jpetso on Friday February 05, 2016 @07:04PM (#11045701)
I signed up with an email alias specifically created for LinkedIn, and it still managed to associate my Facebook friends as possible connections. What the frick.
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by AJ007 on Friday February 05, 2016 @05:31PM (#11045156)
Keep an eye on mobile apps that steal your address book.
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