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 People still use that?
@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 LinkedIn has vastly changed from when it first started. I posted on Facebook a comment that now, when I am on LinkedIn, I forget whether I am on Facebook or LinkedIn.
I would say in the beginning it was focused on corporate networking. Around 2019/2020 definitely changed to the vectors for social engineering camp.
It seemed like all the corporate folks suddenly forced to be at home were bored and missing the industry socialization and migrated that all to LI. I like some of the changes like the "promoter" profile format or whatever it's called but the rest of it is just too much.
I just want a digital rolodex to leverage old work contacts when needed!
@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.