Reply to: LinkedIn Intro

[norrahe]

I've had some interesting job / contract offers via Linkedin and am negotiating for a permie role at the moment.

Needs must and all that.

[Old Greg]

traitor. Please hand your contractor card in at reception and click here

If I take it, I will walk the walk of shame.

[eek]

I've had some interesting job / contract offers via Linkedin and am negotiating for a permie role at the moment.

traitor. Please hand your contractor card in at reception and click here

[Old Greg]

I have an account but rarely use it. Within minutes of creating an account got spammed / invites from agents

I've had some interesting job / contract offers via Linkedin and am negotiating for a permie role at the moment.

[vetran]

Jolly useful for geocaching.

Is that a euphemism?

[mudskipper]

Its MP I feel sorry for all those tupperware ads!

Jolly useful for geocaching.

[MaryPoppins]

Its MP I feel sorry for all those tupperware ads!

The more the merrier!

[eek]

It's not a proper app, there's no way an iOS app would be able to make those changes to your settings. I just had a look at the site and they wanted me to enter my email address and then grant them access to my Gmail account so I think they're actually hijacking the email account, not the email client, which means it'll be open to anyone.

Yep. The app merely adds a man in the middle email server which slurps things from your email provider, adds their linkedin crap to the email body and forwards the "contextual added" email to the phone...

So not only are they reading every email you access from your phone, you are giving them carte blanche to change the content....

[Bunk]

From that link, it only affects iOS.

So I'm not worried about it.

It's not a proper app, there's no way an iOS app would be able to make those changes to your settings. I just had a look at the site and they wanted me to enter my email address and then grant them access to my Gmail account so I think they're actually hijacking the email account, not the email client, which means it'll be open to anyone.

[DirtyDog]

From that link, it only affects iOS.

So I'm not worried about it.

[vetran]

Shocking.

What benefits is this app supposed to provide?

Intro reconfigures your iOS device (e.g. iPhone, iPad) so that all of your emails go through LinkedIn’s servers. You read that right. Once you install the Intro app, all of your emails, both sent and received, are transmitted via LinkedIn’s servers. LinkedIn is forcing all your IMAP and SMTP data through their own servers and then analyzing and scraping your emails for data pertaining to…whatever they feel like.

They mine your data and use it to add to your (and others) profile. Plus for any other purpose they see fit.

Look forward to sexy massages to hubby having linked in spam on it while your linkedin profile is assocaited with Miss Whiplash.

Its MP I feel sorry for all those tupperware ads!

[minestrone]

I though that all apps on the app store were in some way certified by apple as 'safe', one would think that this type of behaviour would be considered as rampant arseholery by apple, obviously not if the article is true.

[eek]

Shocking.

What benefits is this app supposed to provide?

Linkedin will add some context for you (i.e. more details about the person as pulled in from their linkedin profile).

Its one of those things where it seems like a good idea to absolutely everyone involved until its finally shown to the customer at which point it becomes exactly the opposite.....

[Cliphead]

I have an account but rarely use it. Within minutes of creating an account got spammed / invites from agents

[SimonMac]

Shocking.

What benefits is this app supposed to provide?

Well LinkedIn gets access to a lot of your data so they can sell you customized services, oh you mean for the use