On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:53:00 -0700, "azotic"
wrote:

LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses.

In an e-mail to Bloomberg yesterday, Deborah Lagutaris, whose LinkedIn
profile describes her as a tax preparer, real estate broker and former law
clerk, said LinkedIn contacted more than 3,000 people in her name, including
those copied in on her e-mail messages.

"This means that not only direct e-mail contacts but peripherals as well,"
were used, she said. "I contacted LinkedIn and they said, 'Oh, you can
remove all those invitations from your account manually. We don't know what
happened.'"

Instead, she said she added a disclaimer to her LinkedIn page saying she
hadn't sent the invitations.

Jeffrey Barr of Livingston, said in an e-mail that he estimated LinkedIn
used as many as 200 names and e-mail addresses of his contacts, inviting
them to connect with him on the site.



LinkedIn software engineer Brian Guan described his role on the company's
website as "devising hack schemes to make lots of $$$ with Java, Groovy and
cunning at Team Money!" according to the complaint. Java is a programming
language and computing platform released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Groovy
is a another language for the Java platform.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...ess-books.html


I can't believe anyone in their right mind would ever give LinkedIn,
Facebook, Twitter, or anyone else their entire email list for any
reason. But that default setting is absolutely not in the interest of
the LinkedIn user. I'm going to dig into this one and let them have
it with both barrels if necessary.

P.S: No, I didn't give them that opportunity to screw me.

--
Try not to become a man of success but
rather try to become a man of value.
--Albert Einstein