John RegehrApr 2

fuck the browsers for making this even possible. do I have to go and disable all .js???

https://browsergate.eu/

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 threadShafik YaghmourApr 2

@regehr

You do realize that all of these companies fingerprint your computer in every way imaginable and use it to track you everywhere and we have no laws to prevent this.

It is totally insidious and these ad companies likely could write a biography of each of in such detail that you would be surprised by the conclusions they could make but likely be forced to admit they are correct.

Show threadJohn RegehrApr 2
@shafik I repeat: fuck the browsers for making this possible
Show threadShafik YaghmourApr 2

@regehr

Yeah, I think back to the days when TCP/IP fingerprinting was state of the art and gosh past me thought it was so cool but we should have realized it was such a dangerous tool back then.

Show threadJohn RegehrApr 2
@shafik ah we were all little babies about this stuff and there's nothing wrong with that
Show threadShafik YaghmourApr 2

@regehr

Like we so need a Ralph Nader for privacy , where are you? Like "Unsafe at any Speed" but for all the spy tech we are dealing with today.

Show threadCassandrich
@shafik @regehr But not compromised.
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