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They spammed your contacts list in the early years. All my coworkers have detailed job history peddled by various data brokers who scraped or bought the data fr
by kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
They spammed your contacts list in the early years. All my coworkers have detailed job history peddled by various data brokers who scraped or bought the data from LI. That is a significant security threat if you are a worthwhile spear phishing target to a state level actor.
- PaulHoule 2y agoBack when I used LinkedIn you could download a spreadsheet of your contacts with their email addresses and spam all of them.
- djbusby 2y agoLI had that, ages ago but also, and this is the dark pattern, got your contacts (like from phone app, or email extension) and then LI messaged them saying "@PaulHoule is on LI! Update your profile or become insignificant! Do it NOW!!"
- jjbinx007 2y agoIt's worse than that: https://schlosser.io/writing/linkedin-dark-patterns/ https://schlosser.io/writing/linkedin-dark-patterns/
- captn3m0 2y agoI deleted my LI account after they spammed everyone on my contact list, including mailing lists I was subscribed to.