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The company that put an Email proxy on people's phones to scrape all email going in and out has a complaint about scraping?


I haven't heard of it and I couldn't find the story by these keywords. Can you tell me more? I'm genuinely interested.


A product called "Linkedin Intro" that was killed within 6 months due to backlash and significant security flaws. It was somehow creating a reverse imap proxy to intercept your email traffic, and "decorate" emails with someone's linkedin profile.

It was ~12 years ago, so there's not much left around, but here is an engineering blog post from Linkedin talking about how they architected it https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...


https://marco.org/2013/10/25/linkedin-intro-insecurity

I don't recall all of the specific details, but I just remember reading about it at the time and how they bypassed some of iOS security protections to do it. Adn that they didn't get perma-banned from the various app stores back then is beyond me. It's a huge part of why I avoid installing apps on my phone in general.



Is the proxy here linkedin messaging/mail instead of direct email?


https://marco.org/2013/10/25/linkedin-intro-insecurity

I don't recall all of the specific details, but I just remember reading about it at the time and how they bypassed some of iOS security protections to do it. Adn that they didn't get perma-banned from the various app stores back then is beyond me. It's a huge part of why I avoid installing apps on my phone in general.


Whoa, really? That is diabolical. Can you provide more info?


https://marco.org/2013/10/25/linkedin-intro-insecurity

I don't recall all of the specific details, but I just remember reading about it at the time and how they bypassed some of iOS security protections to do it. Adn that they didn't get perma-banned from the various app stores back then is beyond me. It's a huge part of why I avoid installing apps on my phone in general.




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