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Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#182I wonder if more those accounts have pro and can see you viewed them recently, probably multiple accounts are owned by the same groups so when they get a report on a bunch of posts they simple map "who looked at both profiles".
They don't even need LinkedIn Pro btw, they just have to turn Private Mode off. If you let other people see that you viewed their profile then LinkedIn will let you see who viewed your profile. So yeah your theory seems most likely unless OP had Private Mode turned on for his profile (then they wouldn't be able to see that he saw their profile regardless of whether or not they have LinkedIn Pro).
> If you let other people see that you viewed their profile then LinkedIn will let you see who viewed your profile.
Not if the viewer has Private Mode on. Having Private Mode off for yourself is not sufficient to see who viewed your profile.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#183I am a PM with LinkedIn. DM me and I can try to funnel this to the right channels. I'll be the first to say that there are a lot of problems with LinkedIn, but the company's "heart" is generally in the right place.
Why are you recommending private support channels? Shouldn't OP use your regular customer support channels?
Not sure if this is in good faith or not, but escalating through an internal contact is going to skip a couple layers of support at minimum, and reduce the chance of a misunderstanding. Also potentially some people in CS might be in on whatever is going on.
If you were being snarky, it seems like this LinkedIn employee is trying to do the right thing. They probably don’t run support/there’s no reason to take cheap shots when they offer to help.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#184I am a PM with LinkedIn. DM me and I can try to funnel this to the right channels. I'll be the first to say that there are a lot of problems with LinkedIn, but the company's "heart" is generally in the right place.
Why are you recommending private support channels? Shouldn't OP use your regular customer support channels?
Private support channels just speed things up, because you can directly go to the right teams/people. A large, distributed workforce working on large, complicated web applications means escalation channels get murky.
Front line support is unlikely to be able to help you here. This doesn't seem like a particularly common occurrence. Here's how things typically go with weird cases like this:
1.) Support agent gets the case and says 'Uh, what do I do with this?' Escalation to team lead. 2.) Team lead reviews case and doesn't know what to do. Team lead escalates to manager. 4.) Manager reviews the case and tries to figure out the right team to send this to 5.) Manager sends it to a team. Team reviews the case. If it's the right team, they'll start investigating. 6.) If it's not the right team, the manager has to figure out another team that could be responsible for the case. 7.) Repeat 5&6 until the right team is identified
This all takes time. And assumes that the original customer support agent actually understands the issue for the security issue it is. Many frontline customer support agents are not particularly technical, so the agent may not even understand they have a security event on their hands.
Or, a PM who knows the right people to go to, offers help and things get quickly escalated.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#185Earlier 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?
I was early on a team that was > 100 people when I left years ago There's lots of assymetric memories of relationships, especially for people that joined in my last 6-12 months.
I'm sure a GAN picture that looked like a strong team member with a close-but-not-the-same name and lots of connections to people I knew well would fool me.
Also, the cost to me incorrectly friending such a person is much lower than missing a strong hire or new job opportunity.
Edit: Also, as someone hiring, you can't even reasonably ban people for this stuff. Some crappy recruiter database integration startup occasionally merges me with a coworoker, then spams out the fake profile. I've had my own company try to poach me before.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> in the spy movie sense It’s not just in the movies. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/a-closer-look-at-the-lap... > Microsoft says LAPSUS$ — which it boringly calls “DEV-0537” — mostly gains illicit access to targets via “social engineering.” This involves bribing or tricking employees at the target organization or at its myriad partners, such as customer support call centers and help desks. > “Microsoft found in…
Recruited employees? Or people they unknowingly hired? Small distinction?
Recruited to join in the scheme against their employer.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you recommending private support channels? Shouldn't OP use your regular customer support channels?
Not sure if this is in good faith or not, but escalating through an internal contact is going to skip a couple layers of support at minimum, and reduce the chance of a misunderstanding. Also potentially some people in CS might be in on whatever is going on. If you were being snarky, it seems like this LinkedIn employee is trying to do the right thing. They probably don’t run support/there’s no reason to take cheap sh…
It's not a cheap shot. It's snarky but accurate commentary on the abysmal state of customer support and how absolutely worthless it is
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#188Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
wait what?
Yeah [1], and that's not even mentioning that the motivation behind those questionable "engineering" decisions was to be able to read and modify all your emails, helpfully injecting linkedin content into them.
[1] https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-...
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
That is a separate, standalone app, not the regular LinkedIn app
This doesn't excuse the fact that the company did this.