I'm shocked that Microsoft which is primarily bases on trust as far as corporate stuff is concerned went for linkedin. I hope they sell them or just burn them.
Nothing good can ever come out of linkedin they have less ethics than facebook and twitter.
It's the lowest rung of where nation states target and you've just handed it to them on a platter.
As horrible as it sounds you all sort of deserve it for selling your soul to such a horrendous platform hellbent on fucking with its users. For some reason we're all worried about tiktok now though.
And the little shot of dopamine they get from being LinkedIn popular would probably make them happy to answer any questions you have about things they left out.
Go ahead and set yourself up a Tomcat cluster, an internal Tomcat cluster, some Oracle databases, and even go so far as to reverse-engineer a UI and maybe a data model if we're being extra ambitious.
A business, you still will not have.
eg not paid employees, any anyone who "volunteers" to help out.
The many failure scenarios for that combined with peoples (sensitive) private information are mind boggling.
You might think facebook behaves pathologically but linked-in takes it to a new level!
Download your data. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/50191/download...
Close your account. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/63
They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining.
That seems like a pretty dark pattern to me. To my knowledge no one got fired for unethical behaviour over that.
The company seems to have a “don’t get caught” attitude to privacy.
Regardless of their intentions, I don't understand how anyone could have thought that was a good idea.
>They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining.
Isn't that technically not mitm? That would imply the user was using linkedin as a mail client/proxy or something. This is closer to fraud or phishing.
Best guess is someone there messed up when they merged some internal email lists.
They then maintained this connection indefinitely without telling the user and also used it to spam people under your name.
They used this system to send my ex-girlfriend an invite to join me on LinkedIn. Absolutely repulsive and infuriating.
Don't trust Microsoft.
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Lists of people who invested in companies, culled from public disclosures, or names of corporate board members and such, aren’t the same thing as private PII.