Data Broker Opt-Out List

Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by yearoflinux on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:13AM (#24390073)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by ShorsHammer on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:33AM (#24390145)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by beagle3 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @06:43AM (#24390422)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by yearoflinux on Sunday September 06, 2020 @11:18AM (#24391929)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by huffmsa on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:37AM (#24390161)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by salawat on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:13PM (#24395410)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by huffmsa on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:23AM (#24398615)

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

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by yearoflinux on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:35AM (#24390155)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by justinclift on Sunday September 06, 2020 @07:29AM (#24390648)

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.

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by Kkoala on Sunday September 06, 2020 @12:45PM (#24392627)

Sounds like Google

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by specialist on Sunday September 06, 2020 @11:04AM (#24391804)

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.

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