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Wow, it even says right there that if you forward or reply via a different account, the full content remains in the message (of course!). I'd imagine the same thing would happen if you moved the message from a folder in one imap account to a folder in another imap account. Nice.

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My initial reaction to this blog post was basically revulsion on a gut level, but the more I think about it, the more my revulsion becomes justified on a rational level.

There are good ways to remove 95%+ of the content even if you forward/reply from a different account. We'll talk about this in an upcoming post.

95% != 100%.

So there's a nontrivial chance that if I'm connected to someone in LinkedIn whose profile is "private", then if I forward a message from him (containing this LinkedIn flair) to some third party (who is not connected to him), then I could expose his profile details to the third party? That's a privacy lawsuit just waiting to happen.

Every time I get an email from LinkedIn with updates on private profiles of people I am connected to I could forward that email to anyone, is that a privacy lawsuit waiting to happen too?

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