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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

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    18 hours ago

    The author of this article obviously isn’t searching my computer though, since they don’t know shit about who is or isn’t illegally searching it. But it certainly isn’t whatever this linedin thing is.