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Well there was the well publicised man-in-the-middle attack by Linkedin.

They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining.

That seems like a pretty dark pattern to me. To my knowledge no one got fired for unethical behaviour over that.

The company seems to have a “don’t get caught” attitude to privacy.

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Okay, I didn't actually know about (or remember) that one.

Regardless of their intentions, I don't understand how anyone could have thought that was a good idea.

>Well there was the well publicised man-in-the-middle attack by Linkedin.

>They repurposed user login details to silently rerouted all the user’s email through their servers for scanning and mining.

Isn't that technically not mitm? That would imply the user was using linkedin as a mail client/proxy or something. This is closer to fraud or phishing.

Yeah, that's the 3rd time today I've seen someone use that word wrong on here.

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