nixCraft 🐧12h ago

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer. Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history https://browsergate.eu/

Is there anything Microsoft is not doing these days?

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate
Show threadpancsta12h ago
@nixCraft TLDR *browser and only for DOM-injecting or file serving web extensions. This would explain why the website is so slow...
Show threadjonathankoren™

@pancsta @nixCraft scrapping from extensions puts a lot of stress on the servers.

What’s completely expected by an ancient like this, is a the researchers breathlessly take single sentences out of a sworn deposition and then claim they’re contradictory, but when you read the actual deposition, it’s completely mundane.

There is so much fucking bullshit in the original report

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