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Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by nerdponx »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #113
woadwarrior01 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did that 10 years ago when they got hacked[1], later recruiters from two FAANG companies even found me without it (The first found me on Github, and another through a referral) and I worked for a couple of years at both companies. Like you, I'd thought I had a good run without it. More recently, I noticed that some of the people who were way junior to me earlier in my career, are way ahead of me because they were s…

Would be interesting to know, whether they purely optimize for the money and jumped ship at every opportunity, or they somehow managed to make recruiters pay attention to their profile and actually read and understand anything on the profile. And if so, how they managed to make recruiters do that.

Every time you update your LinkedIn page, recruiters throw themselves at you, matching your profile to whatever search keywords they have configured. Some of them turn out to be clueless, some of them turn out to have bad opportunities available, but some of them turn out to be surprisingly savvy and have access to good jobs.

I just recently got a new job that I think it's pretty good, and I didn't have to submit a single "blind" application. All of my interviews came through recruiters via Linkedin.

It's a relatively low effort way to have a steady flow of opportunities, one of which might turn out to be good once in a while.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by peteradio »

dorfsmay wrote: post #146
ge96 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not directly related, whenever I get a new connection request, it is hard to tell if a person is real. Particularly if I don't know them first hand. The job history can be fake and profile photo generated by some GAN. It sucks but yeah, then later on they pitch something to you.

Why would you consider a connection from somebody you have not worked with?

Linkedin should randomly send people made-up requests. They could collect statistics on the gullibility or neediness of the person and sell it!

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by keyringlight »

mbustamanter wrote: post #144
dmos62 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wait what?

I could be wrong, but I think the story was contained here [0], where a chilean programmer was targeted through a LinkedIn face account set by north korean hackers. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible...

There was also "Operation Socialist" [1] where the UK's GCHQ with the aid of the NSA hacked Belgacom, via phishing linkedin emails. Darknet Diaries also had an episode on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Socialist

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by greatartiste »

heleninboodler wrote: post #46
greatartiste wrote: post #36

I never thought I would say this but LinkedIn seems to have gone even further downhill than it was a few years ago. You know things are bad when even the low end recruiters seem to have left the platform. These days 90% of the contacts/connect requests I receive are from dodgy pension "advisors" trying to get their hands on my pension pot cash.

Further downhill than secretly installing an IMAP proxy on your phone and hijacking all your email to go through it in a way that destroyed all TLS security to your real mail server? Impressive...

No I must admit that is even lower than I thought they were capable of , yet somehow doesn't surprise me.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by dwt204 »

ospzfmbbzr wrote: post #141

As a former longtime LI pro user and LI user at launch... I'm not surprised. LI loves spam and they have no intention of really doing anything about it. I refused to keep paying for such a low quality service. This has not negatively affected my consulting networking or revenues at all. Good riddance. It can go in the trash with FB.

After reading all of this, it might be time for me to wean myself from LI, so any tips you may have would be great. I run a small pro bono (sometime contracts) for apprenticeships and workforce development in disadvantaged working class and BIPOC communities. Revenue not so much as the networking is the thing that seems to be my biggest challenge without LI

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by chipsa »

robin_reala wrote: post #102
KaiserPro wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wait what?

I hadn’t heard of this either, but incredibly it turns out to be true: https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...

Though, I was thinking that same sort of technology might come in handy for people that wanted to have encrypted email, without having to use a special encrypted email app: proxy through an app that did the encryption and decryption, but didn't store anything.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by jrumbut »

thestepafter wrote: post #2

So you are saying that on LinkedIn if you report something the owner can see the name of who reported it?

You can often see who viewed your profile. There probably weren't too many people viewing more than one of their profiles.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by byteshock »

aspectmin wrote: post #43

I recommend filing a report with the Microsoft Security Response Center, especially in light that a malicious party may now have information on you, and as people below pointed out there may be (1) risk of Doxing, and/or (2) there are some suggestions that Microsoft (LinkedIn) employees may be compromised. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc (Report an Issue)

I’m not sure I understand the value of reporting this to Microsoft? Wouldn’t it be better to submit an online tip to law enforcement? Is Microsoft doing law enforcement activity now?

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by huhwat »

byteshock wrote: post #158
aspectmin wrote: post #43

I recommend filing a report with the Microsoft Security Response Center, especially in light that a malicious party may now have information on you, and as people below pointed out there may be (1) risk of Doxing, and/or (2) there are some suggestions that Microsoft (LinkedIn) employees may be compromised. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc (Report an Issue)

I’m not sure I understand the value of reporting this to Microsoft? Wouldn’t it be better to submit an online tip to law enforcement? Is Microsoft doing law enforcement activity now?

LinkedIn is a Microsoft product, so they would have the ability and interest in understanding what broke here.

Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam

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Post by feet »

Not sure what illegal imagery has to do with drugs? AFAIK pictures of drugs is not illegal, the only pictures that I'm aware of that might be considered illegal would contain child abuse stuff, personal info, classified info?

I understand that selling drugs is illegal, but in that case the selling of drugs is what is illegal and not an image

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