I seriously question whether LinkedIn is more effective for corporate networking or for providing attack vectors for social engineering.
@voltronic I am unlinked.
@voltronic just so y'all know I don't use LinkedIn
@dratino
I am so fortunate that public education doesn't use LinkedIn. We have job application systems so arcane that it wouldn't be worth the effort for a ransomware group to go that route.
@voltronic not sure our IT department and my email is getting so much junk lately
@voltronic scrapping of accounts vs emails has been done in the past, not necessarily a breach but, stuff just right out in the open
@elmaxx
I lost count of how many episodes of DarkNet diaries there are where the initial attack was done by browsing LinkedIn for a an employee who might be exploitable.
@voltronic Corporate networking? Is that what we're calling sales reps who send pitches 38 seconds after sending an unsolicited connection request?
@DrFaustus
I guess that would be corporate spamming?
@voltronic I use it mostly to find interesting talent and our best folks have come via LI posts (our actual HR app process is bamboo) Also keep in touch with folks I’ve worked with on various stuff in 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦. But yes, I’m thinking of leaving there, too…
Our recruiters use it as one of their tools, but I pretty much have always seen it as online resume storage. 🤷🏻♀️
LinkedIn has been by far the most effective place for me to job hunt for about a decade.
It's also been useful to keep in touch with people I use as job references but otherwise have no relationship with. (Less important as corporations rely less on references.)
It probably has led some scammers in my direction, but nothing that's been an issue (to my knowledge).
@voltronic 🤷🏽♂️ Facebook for corporates
@voltronic it cracks me up (/s) that many firms basically require it.
@voltronic Six of one, half a dozen of the other, I suspect.