An anonymous reader writes with a link to the New York Times’ summary of a security and privacy disaster that’s been inspiring angry posts on various social networks, including LinkedIn itself: “Security researchers are calling LinkedIn’s new mobile app, Intro, a dream come true for hackers or intelligence agencies… Intro redirects e-mail traffic to and from users’ iPhones and iPads through LinkedIn’s servers, then analyzes and scrapes those e-mails for relevant data and adds pertinent LinkedIn details… Researchers liken that redirection to a so-called man-in-the-middle attack in which hackers, or more recently, intelligence agencies, intercept Internet traffic en route to its destination and do what they will with it.”… An anonymous reader writes with a link to the New York Times’ summary of a security and privacy disaster that’s been inspiring angry posts on various social networks, including LinkedIn itself: “Security researchers are calling LinkedIn’s new mobile app, Intro, a dream come true for hackers or intelligence agencies… Intro redirects e-mail traffic to and from users’ iPhones and iPads through LinkedIn’s servers, then analyzes and scrapes those e-mails for relevant data and adds pertinent LinkedIn details… Researchers liken that redirection to a so-called man-in-the-middle attack in which hackers, or more recently, intelligence agencies, intercept Internet traffic en route to its destination and do what they will with it.”
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