Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 5th from 16:49 to 12:53: Why you should care about the LinkedIn calendar vulnerability | Extenuating Circumstances – @hondanhon: Why you should care about the LinkedIn calendar vulnerability. http://t.co/13JkCoGs Want [...]

So we found out today that LinkedIn’s iOS apps have been sending calendar data in plaintext in order to support a new feature – giving you background information on the people you’re meeting that day. Which, on its own, is potentially a pretty useful feature, and a nice way of bringing to life the more [...]