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RE: colter.social/@nicolasvivant/1…
1. Il semble que le scan réalisé par LinkedIn cible surtout des extensions de scraping/IA
2. Il semble que cette campagne soit le fait d'un développeur d'extension de ce type refusée par LinkedIn. #Vengeance
LinkedIn ne devrait pas faire ce type de scan, mais la précision me semble importante.
Source : social.treehouse.systems/@vant… via @julienw
elle (@vantiss@treehouse.systems)
Attached: 4 images ok, quick follow-up screenshots to show that: - Those behind browsergate.eu and fairlinked.Treehouse Mastodon
J'ai vérifié les allégations de browsergate.eu (LinkedIn scanne plus de 6000 extensions de Chrome au démarrage).
1. c'est vrai
2. Firefox n'est pas impacté
Vidéo du scan : video.echirolles.fr/w/2dqppRwX…
**Attention** : colter.social/@nicolasvivant/1…
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.BrowserGate
It's quite damning that the folks behind the #BrowserGate investigation about #LinkedIn's hidden data theft programme have opted to sue #Microsoft in court for #DMA infringement rather than submitting a complaint for public enforcement to the @EUCommission.
It looks like they have little trust in the EU Commission to do that job quickly and effectively enough. 🤷♂️
#DigitalMarketsAct #competition #DataProtection #GDPR #privacy
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.BrowserGate
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.
@Vivaldi is this allowed in your browser? 👀
There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium:
browsergate.eu/
The website claims "LinkedIn is Illegally Searching Your Computer", and implies the purpose is to find "religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities".
tl;dr:
- yes, LinkedIn is scanning through a list of 6k+ extensions on Chrome;
- yes, this is bad;
- but the website is disingenuous in making unnecessarily overblown claims.
🧵
#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
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.BrowserGate
EDIT: @rysiek has an explanation about the shady things LinkedIn is doing. He explains it far better than I did:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/116337205…
LinkedIn/Microsoft are definitely NOT to be trusted. But I realize phrasing is important. So I’m moderating my own post. I apologize if this was misconstrued.
But I subjectively believe there is a high likelihood that LinkedIn is doing nefarious things with this data.
#BrowserGate #LinkedIn #InfoSec #OpSec #Privacy #YouAreTheProduct #Microsoft
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek@mstdn.social)
There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium: https://browsergate.Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (Mastodon 🐘)
