[gfodor]

Your last point nails it. I can't help but think there are a good number of people now angling to build similar hacks in a much less rigorous fashion and then build entire companies around this hack. The next year is already, from my vantage point, lining up to be a year full of "give us OAuth access to your GMail account" products. This adds another vector for this type of product. In any case, users are not going to care about security and just tap "OK", so it's kind of scary that this train is really moving now. Imagine if Facebook (or the Next Facebook) required e-mail access and this was normalized.

I think it may have been a bit short-sighted for LinkedIn to post a developer-focused, "hey look at what we did" kind of post around Intro, regardless of how properly they implemented it behind the scenes.

[Spearchucker]

If Steve Sinofsky is to be believed, this is the natural order of things:

http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/10/25/on-the-exploit...