The Bavarian Central Cybercrime Prosecution Office in Bamberg has opened a investigation into this matter (Case File No 650 UJs 2809/26) and I am sure they are interested in talking to you.
They would love to hear how this is all plain wrong.
I am the one who published the findings at browsergate.eu and I think most of the debate here misses the point.
This is not about sandboxed or not. That's not the point.
The point is this is being done on a platform with 1 billion users with REAL NAMES, with REAL JOBS, working for REAL EMPLOYERS.
This is a privacy violation by every meaning of the term. But it is a lot more: It is the largest INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE operation I have ever heard of.
Literally every company on the planet (and every institution) have their employees browsers scanned for installed extensions. Some 200 are DIRECT COMPETITORS to Microsoft.
This is not about the behavior or a rando website trying to stop malicious actors.That's simply misses the point. By far.
Hi, I am the one who published the findings on browsergate.
Microsoft has of course a legitimate interest in protecting the integrity of their IT infrastructure and their users from malicious actors. No one disputes this.
The answer to that challenge is the creation of a marketplace and not the illegal and potentially criminal surveillance of their users devices. Every other platform on the planet has an app store for that reason.
The big picture here is that Microsoft is making $1b with Sales Navigator. A product no one would really pay for if they knew that there are legal alternatives.
Linkedin is not protecting their servers or their users - they are protecting a legally questionable monopoly that Microsoft created.
The Bavarian Central Cybercrime Prosecution Office in Bamberg has opened a investigation into this matter (Case File No 650 UJs 2809/26) and I am sure they are interested in talking to you.
They would love to hear how this is all plain wrong.