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TeamBlind
Discourse on Blind makes HN look like the Athenian Assembly.
Agreed. Still beats vapid LinkedIn feed.
Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
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I wonder whether by compromised you mean: 1. compromised in the spy movie sense of them voluntarily passing information to the scammers (potentially for money) 2. compromised in the IT security sense of their accounts or computers having been hacked 3. some superset of 1. and 2.
Probably simpler than both of those, more as in - there are allegations/comments suggesting that there may be individuals holding trusted positions who may not be as trustworthy as one would hope (based on the potential pathways by which malicious parties may have identified the OP). Insider threat is still a significant concern to companies, and were one representing Microsoft one might want to at least take a peek…
My primary take-home from having DOD/DOE security clearances, and having to sit through historical case studies every 3 months about security breaches, is that every DOD/DOE security lapses and espionage event in history were "trusted insiders" doing the deed.
Physical security was long ago solved by pre-20th century tech like locks and security guards. No, it was always a trusted insider. There's no reason to assume that is any different with social media companies.
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This is probably a good case to remind people: You ("engineers who want to network") are a small fraction of the LinkedIn userbase. You cannot begin to accurately grok how the vast majority of users use and feel about LinkedIn. Your opinions are valid (and I share them fully). But be careful not to assume that the way _you_ interact with LinkedIn is universally shared.
Who are the predominant users of LinkedIn then? Marketing mostly, or is it recruiters? Startup founders? How do you measure "activity" in this scenario - is it public postings or are we including the private messages that people send about jobs? I see a lot of useless posts end up on my feed - self congratulations and a lot of what equates to a press release for some product - but those have to target a user base of…
Every college student in the world has a LinkedIn account, whether they want one or not. That's a gigantic userbase of engaged users.
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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…
It's the same reason why going through HR to get a job is inefficient and prone to failure, while "private channels" are more efficient for everyone and get the right person to the right job for the right price FASTER.
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#225I 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?
If you want to be a bureaucrat about it, sure. This is a Tell HN post, so someone from LI commenting on it is exactly the desired outcome.
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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
Anyone who has worked front-line customer support knows why all the roadblocks are in place; it's a massive firehose of absolute junk 90% of the time.
Yep. One job I had was to work on a team to automate the destruction of 99% of all job applications coming from the internet while still nominally being in compliance with EEOC. We figured out a number of ways.
The company actually ONLY hired people directly recommended by employees or trusted business partners. 100% of all unsolicited resumes were ignored and destroyed (yet had a paper trial for legal and EEOC compliance).
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#227I 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?
As huhwat said - LinkedIn is part of Microsoft now. As such it is within the auspices of the MSRC
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#228Not 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
Who is claiming that imagery of drugs is illegal?
Literally the first sentence of the post
>It made the news recently that Wickr (Amazon owned E2EE chat app) is full of illegal imagery.
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> Network directly with engineers where they spend time online Where would that be? I wouldn't recommend HN for networking purposes.
Forums and chat rooms related to technologies you have experience with, want to learn. Slack and Discord have quite a few. Some like to complain about projects using Slack or Discord because they’re not open and can’t be archived publicly but really who is pulling value from old IRC logs today? Nostalgic lizard brain is all that is.
> Some like to complain about projects using Slack or Discord because they’re not open and can’t be archived publicly but really who is pulling value from old IRC logs today?
When projects use Slack or Discord (or, for that matter, IRC) as their primary support channel it becomes a lot more painful to search online for solutions to problems.