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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by Lio on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:06AM (#24390052)
Well there was the well publicised man-in-the-middle attack by Linkedin.

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by Delk on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:47AM (#24390718)
Okay, I didn't actually know about (or remember) that one.

Regardless of their intentions, I don't understand how anyone could have thought that was a good idea.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by gruez on Sunday September 06, 2020 @09:46AM (#24391252)
>Well there was the well publicised man-in-the-middle attack by Linkedin.

>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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by darwingr on Monday September 07, 2020 @01:44AM (#24396897)
Yeah, that's the 3rd time today I've seen someone use that word wrong on here.
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