It seems that they don't ask for scopes.

The parameter is left blank: scope=

Kind regards,
Maciej

On 22 July 2015 at 10:26, Phil Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do they explicitly ask for those scopes? Or do they leave scope to default
> that way.
>
> Phil
>
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:22, Justin Richer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is a pretty clear case of SlideShare trying to grab too much. The
> LinkedIn API (which is their own proprietary thing, not OpenID Connect)
> does separate all the permissions into different scopes. However, the
> SlideShare app is asking for all of them, and LinkedIn doesn’t let you
> uncheck any boxes on the authorization screen.
>
> FWIW, the reason they want write access to your profile is to
> automatically add new SlideShare presentations that you upload to your
> LinkedIn profile page. You should still have the option of turning that
> off, or of turning on that functionality later.
>
>  — Justin
>
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Kathleen Moriarty <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey Barry,
>
> From my observations with Facebook, it now has options added for you to
> select what resources from Facebook will get shared when authorizing access
> to other applications.  You can click on each of the possibilities and
> strip it down.  It appears to me that Facebook is managing that, so in your
> case, I *think* (and am open to be corrected) that LinkedIn needs to do
> something similar.  Without those options, I also cancel out and just don't
> use the other app.
>
> Thanks,
> Kathleen
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Barry Leiba <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, someone sent me a link to some presentation slides that
>> he'd posted to SlideShare.  I looked at them, and wanted to download
>> them as a PDF.  In order to let me do that, SlideShare wants me to log
>> in.  It gives me the options to log in via LinkedIn or Facebook.  As
>> I'm one of the three people in the world without a Facebook account, I
>> clicked "LinkedIn".  That got me an OAuth authorization screen, image
>> attached.
>>
>> Now, I don't know if this is SlideShare's fault for asking for too
>> much, or LinkedIn's fault for not providing enough granularity for
>> requests, but just LOOK at that list of what I'd be giving SlideShare
>> access to.  The first few make sense: read my profile (the whole thing
>> or pieces of it, including contact information).  But... access to my
>> connections?  I'm not sure they'd like my exposing their identities to
>> SlideShare.  Access to my private messages?  EDIT MY PROFILE?  Srsly?
>>
>> Of course, this isn't the fault of the OAuth protocol, really (though
>> one might argue that there's not enough guidance provided).  But,
>> really, with implementations like this, I have to wonder what they're
>> thinking.
>>
>> I clicked "Cancel", of course, and asked the slide creator to send me a
>> PDF.
>>
>> Barry
>>
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