LinkedIn Apologizes For Trying To Connect Everyone In Real Life (vocativ.com) 71
LinkedIn has apologized for a vague new update that told some iPhone users its app would begin sharing their data with nearby users without further explanation. From a report: The update prompted outrage on Twitter after cybersecurity expert Rik Ferguson received a strange alert when he opened the resume app to read a new message: "LinkedIn would like to make data available to nearby Bluetooth devices even when you're not using the app." That gave Ferguson, vice president of research at the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, a handful of concerns, he told Vocativ. Among them: "the lack of specificity, which data, when, under what conditions, to which devices, why does it need to happen when I'm not using the app, what are the benefits to me, where is the feature announcement and explanation, why wasn't it listed in the app update details." Reached for comment, LinkedIn said it's a mistake -- that some iPhone users were accidentally subject to undeveloped test feature the company is still working on.
It was a mistake (Score:5, Interesting)
you found out about this horrible feature before we officially released it.
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Re:It was a mistake (Score:5, Insightful)
You found out about this horrible feature before you clicked through the EULA without reading it.
You don't need to read a EULA to understand that social networking is a huge risk to privacy. LinkedIn, in particular, wants your details as transparent as possible because of who pays their bills. That's precisely what they want. They want to know if you're too smart to figure them out or just smart enough to work for them without asking too many questions and to be a good, little subservient drone.
I like the idea (Score:3)
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She definitely wouldn't hire him, as she knows his work ethic. And his porn habits.
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What's a "thought-leader"?
Influencer.
Individuals who have the power to affect purchase decisions of others because of their (real or perceived) authority, knowledge, position, or relationship. In consumer spending, members of a peer group or reference group act as influencers. In business to business (organizational) buying, internal employees (engineers, managers, purchasers) or external consultants act as influencers.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/influencers.html [businessdictionary.com]
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What's a "thought-leader"?
Influencer.
Incorrect. Thought leader essentially means a visionary thinker. Influencers are negotiators a la sales people. You often see the more profile people have both but usually not knowing how to do a damn thing in practice.
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Are you creimer?
I AM CREIMER!
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I could use this to beg for a job from thought-leaders who happen to be nearby.
Thought leader = bullshit artist. They usually have no clue how to do anything useful in practice.
NEXT! (Score:3)
Does anyone still take LinkedIn seriously? It's just marketing guys thses days, right? If someone looking for work with my team forwarded their LinkedIn page as a serious part of their resume, I would write them off as morons.
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Guess who's resume I just circular filed...
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All I've ever gotten from Indeed is spam. I've been hearing their radio campaign a lot lately too. As near as I can figure, Indeed is full of fake jobs and pushy ads for Uber and Lyft.
The trick with Indeed is to watch for when a new job position gets posted and call that recruiter immediately. If you're one the first callers in 15 minutes of the posting, you're very likely to get an interview immediately.
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I've gotten people reaching out via LinkedIn about job-offers at various times.
Admittedly recently it's been for jobs working with my last employer's SCM system, and there's no way in hell I'll subject myself to that shit again*
*: Both their system, and the employer, who'd likely be a supplier to these companies.
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Actually, I've never even *heard* of a case of anyone getting a job offer (or offering one) from linkedin.
I fail to comprehend why anyone still even looks at it.
hawk
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What?? (Score:2)
To LinkedIn has decided that they need to become Tinder now? SIlly me, I remember when it was about business.
Re: What?? (Score:3)
Re:What?? (Score:5, Insightful)
It hasn't changed. It was always about their business, and it still is. The business is: you give them information, and then they sell it.
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Let's not go to far with this... (Score:2)
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With 800+ recruiter connections over a 20+ year career and still paid $50,000 [...]
That's $50K+, not $50K. I'm not a programmer, computer engineer or software artitecht. I've done software testing, help desk/desktop support, PC refresh projects, built out a data center, equipped 300+ laptops for 11ac rollout testing, and, currently, doing InfoSec for government IT. If you need a miracle worker, want the job done right the first time and clean up after the last guy who did it wrong, I'm your guy.
[...] creimer is a big fat talkative turd.
Wrong! I'm an asshole. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in IT support.
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[...] sitting in the corner of an unfinished basement like an unloved piece of dick cheese [...]
When I did a PC refresh project for a local hospital, "the corner of an unfinished basement" was just around the corner from the morgue. Whenever the scent of vanilla was in the air, it meant that another dead stiff was brought down from upstairs.
[...] a couple other mouth-breathing helpdesk trolls [,,,]
I spent six weeks cleaning out their cave in between tickets and deployments by sorting, organizing and recycling old computer hardware, freeing up 600-sqft of floor space that the IT manager haven't seen in eight years.
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I was able to connect to the 800+ recruiters I've talked to over the last 20+ years.
That is most unusual definition of awesome I have ever read.
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That is most unusual definition of awesome I have ever read.
If you don't mind being an contractor. My shortest assignment was four hours with four hours of notification. My current assignment is a five-year contract. Some people can't handle the stress of getting a new job and then start planning to get the next job for when the assignment is over.
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You've "talked" to about two recruiters per month over the last 20 years. What did you talk about? How full of shit you are?
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You've "talked" to about two recruiters per month over the last 20 years.
These days I typically get 20+ emails and phone calls from recruiters. I'm not even do an active job search. An active job search would be on phone and email for eight hours straight each day (including weekends and holidays).
What did you talk about?
Whatever positions they're offering at the moment, if I know of anyone else who would qualify, or what other recruiters are looking for in the marketplace (I don't mind trading info but I detest being pumped for information and will ban recruiters/companies).
How full of shit you are?
My shit is quite normal and
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Wow, 20+ years and 800+ recruiters? You must be making a LOT of money!
At the end of the day, it's still a numbers game. The last time I had an active job search, I went to 60+ interviews over eight months to get three job offers at the same time.
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60+ interviews and only 3 job offers? You should have mentioned how good you were at your job where the guy had to lay you off because you were too efficient.
Ancient history. Recruiters and hiring managers are only interested in the last three positions in the last three years. Besides, I didn't really want to explain that I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Some people find such details... tedious.
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Is there seriously ANY thread on Slashdot that you don't shit up telling people what a miserable financial failure you are?
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10508865&cid=54265319 [slashdot.org]
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An 'undeveloped feature' ??? (Score:2)
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And in Redmond, they call it Microsoft design. Same level of stupidity, with more rain.
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Spontaneous generation proved at last!
Take *that*, Mr. Pasteur . . . :)
hawk
sounds like a good reason (Score:5, Informative)
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Now we know the sort of jobs you apply for...
Good luck indeed.
Funny title. (Score:2)
The title of this article sounds like something out of The Onion. "Google apologizes for trying to index every webpage in the world". "Intel apologizes for having the hottest CPU's in the industry".
Nothing new (Score:5, Interesting)
This isn't the first time LinkedIn did something shady via their iPhone app. Frankly, I'm not sure why anyone would still trust them enough to install it.
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Fuck you LinkedIn. Never again!
Best use for LinkedIn (Score:2)
I like LinkedIn, especially because it is a great way to create ad-hoc industry forums for sharing news on developing niche technologies.
But its main use for me is allowing me to figure out which company the salespeople I know are working at this week. Before I email a salesperson who I talked with six months ago, I check their LinkedIn to see if they still work at that company.
Clumpiness (Score:1)
LinkedIn is a creepy, kooky, cluster fuck, circus of confusion.
Why did the www evolve into this clumping together of humans pretending to be social on a website?
Bad security practices and double standards (Score:4, Interesting)
While I am complaining, I am really tempted to bounce any incoming emails with a noreply reply address. Is anyone doing that yet? If I am prepared to accept their email I think it is only reasonable they should be prepared to accept my reply.
Insufficient apology (Score:1)
Tired of being mined for data (Score:2)