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there was no problems (well, if something can go relatively well the past crazy years) but I bumped into absolutely weird problem with LinkedIn a couple of days ago, that appeared out of a thin air.
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it began from the post by Mojeek (https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek/113191452864210676) about security issue on LinkedIn that required turning off some settings in profile. it's fine, I dislike so called "AI" a lot and don't feel like I want to share my data with some stupid bots. I logged in and turned it off in my profile. done.
but I noticed a red warning that claimed that my primary email was "incorrect" in some way and LinkedIn could not use it for sending notifications. what could go wrong with email that I used for over a decade? I checked the email, just to get sure. it worked fine, as expected. it's "life-time" email account at Linux Foundation and it simply redirects emails to my own mail server that also works fine. I even requested assistance from Linux Foundation and they assured me they didn't filter any emails there and the redirection works, as it always did. nobody but LinkedIn had any problems with it.
account on LinkedIn also worked fine... until I requested their support.
well, I decided to refer to LinkedIn support service. and it was a big mistake! I never used it before but situation with the email was strange: my account was fine, the secondary email was fine, but the primary email was ignored by their engine by some misterious reason and I could not fix this myself via their interface. so I created a support ticket (warning: never repeat this dangerous experiment!).
the next day I got three emails from LinkedIn. to my primary email, that worked fine, as expected. so, they could normally send emails to it and all their claims about "incorrectness" of my primary email were just...fucking bullshit a mistake? well, just a note.
the first was an acknoledgment for user request ticket. the second was apologies for delay in responce and told that my request was passed to "another group for additional review and advice". and the third... the third email was a notification that my account on LinkedIn was... blocked because of no reason and to regain access to it I need to supply some "additional info" to confirm I don't know what. they wanted some ID:
what's the damn "Persona" and why the heck I should leak my sensitive personal information to that unknown third-party noname?
hey, guys I have an account, a login, a password on your site. I have an email linked to that account that didn't change for ages. what else, the heck? this is just a free account, no engagements.
just for curiosity I followed the link supplied in the email and discovered there was an QR-code with demand to supply some "legal ID from my smartphone". well. fact number one: I don't use smartphones, for security reasons. I use only free software. I know there're some few open hardware models but I just don't have so much spare time to tinker with building my own image for a smartphone, in addition to all other software that I build from sources. I just don't need smartphone, really, so I don't bother. fact number two: I don't have any "legal IDs" or whatever that could be. I have a passport but I don't consider it as a smart idea to share its secure data with random unknown actors on the net. the requirement of supplying passport data to some third-party site sounds like a scam to me and it literally is.
and yes, my account on LinkedIn that I used since 2010s, as far as I can remember, got blocked and this stupid requirement of "legal ID from smartphone" persists. I can't login, cannot access my contacts there or answer to employers offers, nothing.
I wrote a long rant on this all in reply to the email and now wait for an answer. I never broke any rules, used LinkedIn only for job search (and found some offeres there, really) and communication with possible employers. my address is not in any blacklists or something. and I didn't expect blocking me for just creating a damn user support ticket.
I don't rely on anything good and possiblility of normal solution for this weird situation that much, really, but anyway some part of me hopes the common sense still exsists somewhere in the Universe.
I was really driven mad by the level of incompetence of the personnel at LinkedIn and was really indignant at this stupid behavior. I was shocked by demand of sharing my personal info with unknown nonames.
so I must warn people over here that might have old LinkedIn accounts: never use LinkedIn support system. it's stupid, senseless and dangerous. it does not solve any problems, it creates them! they may block your account and extort your sensitive personal data just because you requested some assistance once in a decade. just incredible idiocy.
#linkedin #rant
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it began from the post by Mojeek (https://mastodon.social/@Mojeek/113191452864210676) about security issue on LinkedIn that required turning off some settings in profile. it's fine, I dislike so called "AI" a lot and don't feel like I want to share my data with some stupid bots. I logged in and turned it off in my profile. done.
but I noticed a red warning that claimed that my primary email was "incorrect" in some way and LinkedIn could not use it for sending notifications. what could go wrong with email that I used for over a decade? I checked the email, just to get sure. it worked fine, as expected. it's "life-time" email account at Linux Foundation and it simply redirects emails to my own mail server that also works fine. I even requested assistance from Linux Foundation and they assured me they didn't filter any emails there and the redirection works, as it always did. nobody but LinkedIn had any problems with it.
account on LinkedIn also worked fine... until I requested their support.
well, I decided to refer to LinkedIn support service. and it was a big mistake! I never used it before but situation with the email was strange: my account was fine, the secondary email was fine, but the primary email was ignored by their engine by some misterious reason and I could not fix this myself via their interface. so I created a support ticket (warning: never repeat this dangerous experiment!).
the next day I got three emails from LinkedIn. to my primary email, that worked fine, as expected. so, they could normally send emails to it and all their claims about "incorrectness" of my primary email were just...
the first was an acknoledgment for user request ticket. the second was apologies for delay in responce and told that my request was passed to "another group for additional review and advice". and the third... the third email was a notification that my account on LinkedIn was... blocked because of no reason and to regain access to it I need to supply some "additional info" to confirm I don't know what. they wanted some ID:
The ID must contain your:
* Photo
* Name
* Signature
You will be providing your ID to Persona for verification. If you want LinkedIn to have access to that data so that we can help you directly, you will need to share the data with LinkedIn.
what's the damn "Persona" and why the heck I should leak my sensitive personal information to that unknown third-party noname?
hey, guys I have an account, a login, a password on your site. I have an email linked to that account that didn't change for ages. what else, the heck? this is just a free account, no engagements.
just for curiosity I followed the link supplied in the email and discovered there was an QR-code with demand to supply some "legal ID from my smartphone". well. fact number one: I don't use smartphones, for security reasons. I use only free software. I know there're some few open hardware models but I just don't have so much spare time to tinker with building my own image for a smartphone, in addition to all other software that I build from sources. I just don't need smartphone, really, so I don't bother. fact number two: I don't have any "legal IDs" or whatever that could be. I have a passport but I don't consider it as a smart idea to share its secure data with random unknown actors on the net. the requirement of supplying passport data to some third-party site sounds like a scam to me and it literally is.
and yes, my account on LinkedIn that I used since 2010s, as far as I can remember, got blocked and this stupid requirement of "legal ID from smartphone" persists. I can't login, cannot access my contacts there or answer to employers offers, nothing.
I wrote a long rant on this all in reply to the email and now wait for an answer. I never broke any rules, used LinkedIn only for job search (and found some offeres there, really) and communication with possible employers. my address is not in any blacklists or something. and I didn't expect blocking me for just creating a damn user support ticket.
I don't rely on anything good and possiblility of normal solution for this weird situation that much, really, but anyway some part of me hopes the common sense still exsists somewhere in the Universe.
I was really driven mad by the level of incompetence of the personnel at LinkedIn and was really indignant at this stupid behavior. I was shocked by demand of sharing my personal info with unknown nonames.
so I must warn people over here that might have old LinkedIn accounts: never use LinkedIn support system. it's stupid, senseless and dangerous. it does not solve any problems, it creates them! they may block your account and extort your sensitive personal data just because you requested some assistance once in a decade. just incredible idiocy.
#linkedin #rant