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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.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

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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 l...

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Ordinal 4 days ago

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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 l...

nix 4 days ago

Would have zapped if you were zappable :)

Hazey hazey@iris.to 4 days ago

Edge browser

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npub104zp...85rf 4 days ago

It seems to be any Chrome-based browser. "Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions." "Chrome extensions can expose internal files to web pages through the web_accessible_resources field in their manifest.json"

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The Attack: How it works

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The sc...

Tobias Muller 3 days ago

*"LinkedIn’s data collection is concerning, but calling it ‘corporate espionage’ might oversimplify the issue—this kind of tracking is sadly routine across Big Tech. Makes you wonder who’s actually weaponizing data: I recently read about Iranian hackers targeting UK firms via far more aggressive tactics.* https://theboard.world/articles/iranian-cyber-threat-uk-businesses"