[yearoflinux]

LinkedIn is pure cancer. They actively tempt you to message your contacts in a way where you think that the recepient would welcome your message right now but it's an opposite situation. This at best creates a communication gap and is at worst rude and might break up communication.

I'm shocked that Microsoft which is primarily bases on trust as far as corporate stuff is concerned went for linkedin. I hope they sell them or just burn them.

Nothing good can ever come out of linkedin they have less ethics than facebook and twitter.

[ShorsHammer]

I'm always surprised at the number of people in infosec or _really interesting_ defense positions who have linkedin profiles.

It's the lowest rung of where nation states target and you've just handed it to them on a platter.

As horrible as it sounds you all sort of deserve it for selling your soul to such a horrendous platform hellbent on fucking with its users. For some reason we're all worried about tiktok now though.

[beagle3]

It suspect the Facebook DBA+backup teams are the most diverse team in the planet. They surely have representatives from every worthy intelligence service on earth working in perfect harmony.

[yearoflinux]

On that note, what's interesting is nobody on earth ever notes that Snowden was cia before nsa. Nsa and cia jostle for power all the time.

[huffmsa]

People describe their company's entire tech stack, in detail on LinkedIn.

And the little shot of dopamine they get from being LinkedIn popular would probably make them happy to answer any questions you have about things they left out.

[salawat]

There's a difference between knowing all the pieces that go into a working machine, and knowing how, in what order, to what end, and all the little interactions and knock-on effects in the form of of unwritten knowledge that keep a company cranking along.

Go ahead and set yourself up a Tomcat cluster, an internal Tomcat cluster, some Oracle databases, and even go so far as to reverse-engineer a UI and maybe a data model if we're being extra ambitious.

A business, you still will not have.

[huffmsa]

I'm not talking about a business perspective, I mean they're laying out their specific attack surface, zero social engineering required.

[yearoflinux]

Thinking about it, it obviously makes sense. These are people who want to be approached by anyone and everyone and will sell to the highest bidder.

[justinclift]

Even worse, the official LinkedIn support team are Community Volunteers.

eg not paid employees, any anyone who "volunteers" to help out.

The many failure scenarios for that combined with peoples (sensitive) private information are mind boggling.

[Kkoala]

Sounds like Google

[specialist]

IDK. A decade ago, I made a love connection. I apologized for misusing the medium. She said "Not necessary. I'm glad LinkedIn is good for something." We lasted about 6 months.