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Re:Announcing: LinkedIn Intro by spaetzel on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @01:52PM (#6600404)
Sounds like they act as an e-mail proxy. You give them login info to your account and they resend a new e-mail with the extra info.

https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/faq

Re:Announcing: LinkedIn Intro by avenger123 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:14PM (#6600552)
Incredible. I just went through the FAQ.

I would say this is going to be a really really hard sell for most people. The instructions scare me more than anything else. They are written in such a way that it tries hard to not mention explicitly that LinkedIn effectively another gateway between the email provider and you.

I just don't get it. How do these companies just assume privacy is a non-issue and come out with products that just completely assume people will trust them because they have a cute privacy statement - "please trust us, we will never do anything with your data.".

I'm sorry LinkedIn. This isn't the Facebook crowd. A lot of LinkedIn is IT and I couldn't imagine the average LinkedIn user using this product.

Re:Announcing: LinkedIn Intro by synthos on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:34PM (#6600680)
People are just so used to the expected email monitoring from their government. So why not just trust everyone with your communications? Abstract thought not required
Re:Announcing: LinkedIn Intro by zippergz on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:00PM (#6600475)
Oh...

I'm much more of a LinkedIn fan than most here, and this sounded cool based on the blog post, but there's no way I'm going to let them have my email account credentials (or all of my email).

Re:Announcing: LinkedIn Intro by ngoel36 on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:07PM (#6600511)
I was so excited about this until I realized that. Not sure if I want to give them all my credentials...