When a robot from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (HBCBS) left my wife a message Monday, I was provoked first by the cheerful, familiar voice inflection in the greeting:
It’s the second call from the health insurance company in a week, so perhaps a familiar tone is warranted.
Given the enthusiasm with which yesterday’s absurd Onion headline about Internet privacy was circulated, I decided to publish this slightly devious, slightly concerning, slightly useful little trick for circumventing the privacy constraints on LinkedIn’s search utility. In this post, I describe a technique that exposes additional user data about people outside your network whom you find via LinkedIn Search.
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Book: Meet the Kinect
I'm a co-author of this Apress (Springer) title, Meet the Kinect. It's a nice survey of the first year of Kinect "hacks" and how to start rolling your own.