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by thevagrant 1626 days ago
Wasn't LinkedIn the one who used to access people's emails to farm contacts? They did it by testing the password signed up to LinkedIn against common mail services (Hotmail). If the users used the same password across both services then their email got trawled.
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What you’re describing isn’t ‘farming’ it’s illegal computer hacking.
That's right. It happened a long time ago but it made me quite wary of using LinkedIn.

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