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LinkedIn app asks for permission to impersonate you?
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auctiontheory
on July 9, 2013
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LinkedIn lets apps request to "Send messages and invitations to connect as you." FounderDating is one app that requests such permissions. Does this seem a reasonable risk? (Seems sketchy to me.)
DamnYuppie
on July 9, 2013
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I wouldn't let anyone impresonate me, I barely trust myself with my own image!
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