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@PragmaticAndy
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Andy Hunt is a musician, programmer, consultant, award-winning/best-selling author and publisher. One of 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto, co-founder Pragmatic Bookshelf publishers. If you pitch AI "solutions" you are dead to me.
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Bruno Miguel9h ago

"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."

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
/\ndy6h ago

I have been *besieged* lately with scam calls from some BS "capital funding" company. Always a faked caller ID, always some fellow with an accent in a boiler room setting.

I pissed the last guy off and then got basically 12 near-simultaneous calls in a row.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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LinkedIn should be banned for reasons of national security.
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Paco Hope6h ago

Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?

#privacy

https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

The Attack: How it works

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy. This page documents exactly how the system works, with line references and code excerpts from LinkedIn’s production JavaScript bundle.

BrowserGate
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Uncle Duke8h ago
Clara might not have been the best drummer to respond to the Craigslist ad, but she was the only one that brought cookies to the audition and promised to make everyone in the band matching sweaters.
/\ndy8h ago

Worst AG in US history *so far.**

/ht to Homer Simpson

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Show threadNick Selby 9h ago
@PragmaticAndy I actually *am surprised by the flagrance of this violation. They are literally intentionally violating laws in several ways. Not that others don't do it, but it's generally not something this blatantly illegal.
Show thread/\ndy12h ago

By which I mean, not at all and in no way.

If it's not open source, it's spyware.

And even then, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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Uncle Duke13h ago
“Quiet night, Jimmy?”
“Yeah. You want that topped off?”
“Not just yet, thanks.”
“Mind if I put on the TV?”
“Anything but the fucking news.”
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James Endres Howell13h ago

Helping Daddy with his Zoom meeting. Note the clever mechanical isolation of the mic from the desk, which nevertheless her rumbling jackhammer purring was able to defeat

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