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LinkedIn spyware is proven to be insane.
But totally expected.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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Not gonna lie, I'm not even gonna read the article. LinkedIn is FUCKED. LinkedIn I think is what the hunting ground of true psychopaths looks like. Nothing is sacred enough there not to be offered as sacrafise on the altar of capital.
Perform for us the rituals. Humiliate yourself sufficiently and we will let you humiliate more of your own. Climb the ladder.
Omfg can we go a few weeks without a big leak pls?
lol no. It’s just going to get worse. Companies gobble up s as much info s as they can, it’s profitable, protecting it, less so. Not to mention ai, both from the standpoint of people creating systems they don’t understand, and from the other side where hacking with ai assistance is easier.
We need to change the systems and structure of the world to make any meaningful progress
protecting it is not "profitable" because they get no real consequences for these breaches.
They create the problem to solve the problem
That's all this comes down too. The data has value to them and their shareholders. Paying money to secure it is a cost that they want to minimize
LinkedIn is basically a public resume. Using it for anything more demonstrates that you do not have a basic grasp of privacy or security. As such, there shouldn't be anything up there which is all that bad to have leaked. Sure, if the password database gets dumped, rotate your LinkedIn password (it should already be unique, so no worries about it being reused elsewhere). And having an email address get added to every spam list everywhere kinda sucks. But, what else is the attacker going to get, my name and work history, which are already public on the site?
I mean, yes LinkedIn should be raked over the coals for shit security practices. And we really need something like the GDPR here in the US to actually do that. But, I'm also not going to get terribly worked up about my public CV being leaked. The leak is kinda redundant.
Ok so there's no data leak. It's just repackaged old news.
really what ain't old news... there ain't nothing new under the sun