Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
by ertand on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:37PM
(#16328633)
Yup, as solotronics said.
On Chrome extensions, minor bugs (or minor bugs in the libraries you depend on) might end up having far worse consequences. Read/write access to only linkedin.com can still leak a decent amount of unwanted information in case there's an exploit.
Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
by mitchas on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:56PM
(#16329045)
Hmm. I'll have to read into that more.
I don't use any external libraries, I wrote all of the code in the extension, and the only external requests made outside of the extension are to Google Fonts, so I wonder if it'd be possible to infect this extension.
Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume
by solotronics on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:57PM
(#16327932)
nothing about yours in particular but recently there have been attacks via 3rd party extensions in general
https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-extension-malware/
edit: tried your extension out and I really liked it! thanks for sharing
I know many extensions have full access to any site you visit, but I specified LinkedIn for mine, so when you install it, you are warned that it can access all your data on LinkedIn, but no other sites.