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I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
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Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#72I hate LinkedIn but need it for a few things, mostly accessing certain clients and projects as a freelancer. Last October my ISP (Vodafone UK) assigned me a datacenter-classified IPv6 address with 80+ abuse reports on reputation databases, for bots, DDoS, crawlers. Before I realized this I started getting locked out, suspended, restricted from just about every web service I use, having to solve captchas for simple Go…
I also feel that digital companies get away with “no human representatives”. I should always have access to a human. It should be law. It will screw over a lot of companies and I am all for it since they don’t know what service looks like if it looked them in the eyes.
I heard this being described as an "accountability sink." A system designed in such way that when something bad happens, there is nobody to be held accountable. It feels pervasive in the modern world.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#73I really appreciate this write-up. Was forced to verify to get access to a new account. Like, an interstitial page that forced verification before even basic access. Brief context for that: was being granted a salesnav licence, but to my work address with no account attached to it. Plus I had an existing salesnav trial underway on main account and didn't want to give access to that work. So I reluctantly verified wit…
Thank you for sharing this. I understand, and even agree, that how this is being handled has some pretty creepy aspects. But one thing missing from the comments I see here and elsewhere is: How else should verification be handled? We have a real problem with AI/bots online these days, trust will be at a premium. How can we try to assure it? I can think of one way: Everyone must pay to be a member (there will still be…
> How else should verification be handled?
Many European countries have secure electronic identifications that are trusted by the government, banks etc.
Linkedin could easily use this to verify the identities.
Example of services where you can verify the identity with 35 different providers using a single API:
https://www.signicat.com/products/identity-proofing/eid-hub or https://www.scrive.com/products/eid-hub
I doubt it would take more than a sprint to integrate with this or other services.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#74I hate LinkedIn but need it for a few things, mostly accessing certain clients and projects as a freelancer. Last October my ISP (Vodafone UK) assigned me a datacenter-classified IPv6 address with 80+ abuse reports on reputation databases, for bots, DDoS, crawlers. Before I realized this I started getting locked out, suspended, restricted from just about every web service I use, having to solve captchas for simple Go…
LinkedIn (like Teams) is a Microsoft product. And it shows.
However, they have a very generous free trial for sales/recruitment. You could probably activate it and get real support.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#75You can verify yourself using company email address - maybe I am being naive to think that it’s much safer, but it’s way better than handing over your ID data. I never understand why people supply too much info about themselves for small gains. People at LinkedIn wants you to believe that your career is safe if you play by their games, but ironically they are one of the main reasons why companies nowadays are comfort…
> You can verify yourself using company email address LinkedIn does not support smaller companies; it appears to rely on some kind of whitelist or known-enterprise system. This option is simply not available for at least 90% of users.
> LinkedIn does not support smaller companies.
Pity, but even then is it worth to hand over your very personal data to multiple companies for the sake of blue tick? Not judging, genuine question.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for sharing this. I understand, and even agree, that how this is being handled has some pretty creepy aspects. But one thing missing from the comments I see here and elsewhere is: How else should verification be handled? We have a real problem with AI/bots online these days, trust will be at a premium. How can we try to assure it? I can think of one way: Everyone must pay to be a member (there will still be…
How about everyone gets a digital certification from their own government that this is the person named this and that. No need to share cranial measurements and iris scans.
Well, different trade offs there. On the plus side, sounds pretty simple. On the other hand...
Digital certification from the gov sounds a lot like "digital ID", which has run into considerable resistance in the UK and EU in just the last few months. As a general observation I find most EU citizens I interact with much more trusting of government than ... well, any other group of folks I have interacted with (I have the privilege of having lived and worked in S. America, N. America, sub Saharan Africa and now an EU country). If it does not fly well here, I don't think its general solution that most people would be comfortable with.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/10/09/britcard-uk-di...
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#77I verified my account and I handed over the same info as I handed over when I was getting MSFT Azure cert exam.
So it was nothing special for me.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#78I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account. Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address. It would be int…
Linkedin has been breached a lot over time.
But I have such low faith in the platform that I would readily believe that once they think you're not going to continue adding value, they find unpleasant ways to extract the last bit of value that they reserve only for "ex"-users.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when LinkedIn was condemned because they copied Gmail’s login page saying “Log in with Google”, then you entered your password, then they retrieved all your contacts, even the bank, the mailing lists, your ex, and spammed the hell out of them, saying things in your name in the style of “You haven’t joined in 5 days, I want you to subscribe” ?
Do you have a reference with more information on that?
On HN itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277202
Confirmed 5 years later in media; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-20/linkedin-...
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#80I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account. Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address. It would be int…
My assumption was that it was an intelligence platform first. Just like Skype, Microsoft decided to randomly buy it. It amazing really. If you reached out to people and asked them for the information and graph that LinkedIn maintains, most employers would fire them.
> My assumption was that it was an intelligence platform first.
What do you mean by "intelligence platform"?