According to the LinkedIn docs, that means they get all the scopes that they 
registered for.

 — Justin

> On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Maciej Machulak <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
> <mailto:[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] 
>>> <mailto:[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] 
>>> <mailto:[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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