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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 en
by greatartiste 4y ago
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.
- ge96 4y agoNot 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.
- greatartiste 4y agoYes I'm seeing those as well. The pictures are just a little to perfect & the job history non existent.
- NonNefarious 4y agoLinkedIn is replete with fake accounts. Look at the array of bimboes lined up down the right side of the page at any given moment, all "recruiters."
- dorfsmay 4y agoWhy would you consider a connection from somebody you have not worked with?
- peteradio 4y agoLinkedin should randomly send people made-up requests. They could collect statistics on the gullibility or neediness of the person and sell it!
- ge96 4y agoYeah it's a good question, most of mine are direct or recruiters. You have someone with "franchise" in their title, guess what... you get pitched a franchise. Idk what I was thinking. edit: part of it in my rationale is "being nice" but yeah I mostly use LinkedIn to get a job
- dorfsmay 4y agoRecruiters typically have pro memberships meaning they can message you directly without being connected to you.
- ge96 4y agoYeah I mean I'm not searching for them, they're asking to connect to me edit: ratio is about 25% recruiters was interesting though I recently accepted a new role and out of the 30+ talks in a month about 95%+ were LinkedIn. The conversion for me was 10% actual interview phase, then where I actually got a job was Hired. -- some jobs wrong tech or I was not qualified for
- hedora 4y agoI 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.
- heleninboodler 4y agoFurther 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...
- KaiserPro 4y agowait what?
- robin_reala 4y agoI hadn’t heard of this either, but incredibly it turns out to be true: https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...
- chipsa 4y agoThough, 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.
- stefanfisk 4y agohttps://jordan-wright.com/blog/2013/10/26/phishing-with-linkedins-intro/ https://jordan-wright.com/blog/2013/10/26/phishing-with-link...
- heleninboodler 4y agoYeah [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-in-the-middle-attack-experts/102683/ https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-...
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- lawgimenez 4y agoRemember that huge hack that started when that person accepted a LinkedIn request. I forgot which hack it was.
- dmos62 4y agowait what?
- mbustamanter 4y agoI 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-rise-of-north-koreas-hacking-army https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible...
- keyringlight 4y agoThere 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Socialist
- lawgimenez 4y agoI think this is the one. I read it in Darknet Diaries too but I thought it was a Chinese hacker.
- partido3619463 4y agoWhere else do you think people are going for informal networking / keeping up with old contacts? (Ie just the messaging part)