How do you cheaply create a LinkedIn profile with 1000 connections and all that history? Can you really create and burn such a profile just for a couple of attempted hits on developers?
I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
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Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#452The same situation has happened to me multiple times now. I know HN hates blockchain-anything but the attack is mostly aimed at those in that industry and the idea is (1) To try steal cryptocurrencies (2) To try to get inside access to blockchain companies. For my most recent experience it was someone who had forked a "web3" trading app and they were looking for an engineer for it. But when I Googled this project the…
Something like this recently happened to me: 1) Generic company name 2) They asked me to sign an NDA first (this for some reason almost meant trust) 3) The name of the person there had thousands of LinkedIn profiles (a common name) 4) The frontend looked pretty sane, then I had to run truffle migrate I wonder what's the worst that could happen to me in this scenario. Thankfully I don't do online banking from the mach…
The other scam I get a lot of is people trying to get me to do paid work for nothing then acting offended when I don't immediately start before there's even a contract in place. There's so many idea bros now that just whack together some crap with AI. And it works fine for them up until it breaks, then they think they can just find a developer to "do the finishing touches." Not realizing that sifting through an avalanche of AI spaghetti crap to get it to work is not an easy task (and frankly not even worth doing even for money.) They can dig their own graves.
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#453This blog itself might be the scam. Multilayered blog attack.
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#454Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doing this in the context of blockchain is probably a filter. Only folks who don't think his is all a scam anyway would apply there. So you filter for getting the more gullible folks. That are more likely to have a wallet somewhere. Just like nigerian prince scams are always full of typos and grammar issues. Because only those not recognizing that as obvious scams click the link and thereby this is a filter to increa…
That’s a rude way to put it. I think crypto is full on BS but I have many very smart, self aware friends who are into blockchain. What this is a strong filter for people likely to have crypto wallets on their dev machines.
> I think crypto is full on BS but I have many very smart, self aware friends who are into blockchain.
Smarts have little to do with this. You can be smart and still not see that it's BS. Or you are smart, see it's BS and still think it's a good way to make money (by essentially ripping off those who don't see that it's BS). Or you just don't care and it's just a job. Fine too, everybody draws a line for themselves with what's acceptable. Some don't work in weapons, some not in nuclear, some not in crypto.
> What this is a strong filter for people likely to have crypto wallets on their dev machines.
A dev that keeps a live wallet with anything but toy money on their dev machine may have other problems. Bringing me back to my original point from above that this is a filter.
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
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thanks for the feedback. just fyi - this went though 11 different versions before reaching this point. so I am not able to share the full chat because i used Claude with google docs integration. but hears the google doc i started with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of_uWXw-CppnFtWoehIrr1ir... this and the following prompt ``` 'help me turn this into a blog post. keep things interesting, also make sure you take a…
Fwiw the google doc there is great. And the actual blog post is a waste of my time. I also have other stuff going on in my life and don't appreciate the LLM output wasting my time at all. But the google doc is genuinely good stuff.
Agreed; the original doc was much better and actually easier to read!
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#456Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something like this recently happened to me: 1) Generic company name 2) They asked me to sign an NDA first (this for some reason almost meant trust) 3) The name of the person there had thousands of LinkedIn profiles (a common name) 4) The frontend looked pretty sane, then I had to run truffle migrate I wonder what's the worst that could happen to me in this scenario. Thankfully I don't do online banking from the mach…
The other scam I get a lot of is people trying to get me to do paid work for nothing then acting offended when I don't immediately start before there's even a contract in place. There's so many idea bros now that just whack together some crap with AI. And it works fine for them up until it breaks, then they think they can just find a developer to "do the finishing touches." Not realizing that sifting through an avala…
I know the frustration but I still do them lol. If you are senior ofc you can tell them to f** off.
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#458This article was written by an LLM. I get that the author might be self-conscious about his English writing skills, but I would still much rather read the original prompt that the author put into ChatGPT, instead of the slop that came out. The story - if true - is very interesting of course. Big bummer therefore that the author decided to sloppify it. David, could you share as a response to this comment the original…
thanks for the feedback. just fyi - this went though 11 different versions before reaching this point. so I am not able to share the full chat because i used Claude with google docs integration. but hears the google doc i started with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of_uWXw-CppnFtWoehIrr1ir... this and the following prompt ``` 'help me turn this into a blog post. keep things interesting, also make sure you take a…
Just want to be the nth person to chime in and say the Google doc variant is the better read.
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
> By the time I’m done, it sounds like I something I would write. As a writer myself, this sounds incredibly depressing to me. The way I get to something sounding like something I would write is to write it, which in turn is what makes me a writer. What you’re doing sounds very productive for producing a text but it’s not something you’ve actually written.
I write to communicate with myself or other people. Just like I use AI to go from I need to do $X based on my ideas and designs to I did $x. It’s not about “art” or “passion”. It’s about a paycheck
I don’t think it needs to be about art or passion. I just don’t think someone who relies entirely on AI generated text can accurately call themselves “a writer.”
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I don't think this is accurate. I believe if you go into your privacy settings, you can put yourself into a semi-private or a private mode so that your views aren't shown even when you click to view someone who is a LinkedIn Premium member. However, the big disadvantage is that when you put yourself in a private mode, if you are a non-subscribed user, you will not have access to these analytics for your own profile a…
I think what they meant is that you can't see who clicked your profile if you're browsing (semi?) anonymously unless you pay for premium. You can browse anonymously for free. To see all the folks who've visited your profile, you need to pay.
That's not what they meant, yikes