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That is a separate, standalone app, not the regular LinkedIn app

This doesn't excuse the fact that the company did this.

wait what?

I hadn’t heard of this either, but incredibly it turns out to be true: https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...

Though, I was thinking that same sort of technology might come in handy for people that wanted to have encrypted email, without having to use a special encrypted email app: proxy through an app that did the encryption and decryption, but didn't store anything.

https://jordan-wright.com/blog/2013/10/26/phishing-with-link...

Yeah [1], and that's not even mentioning that the motivation behind those questionable "engineering" decisions was to be able to read and modify all your emails, helpfully injecting linkedin content into them.

[1] https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-...

No I must admit that is even lower than I thought they were capable of , yet somehow doesn't surprise me.