I was in LinkedIn Jail
- Tadi
- Technical , Projects
- April 8, 2025
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The problem with social media platforms
Yoooo!
As some of you may know, I had been in LinkedIn jail for a minute or two 🚔
I updated my password and they wouldn’t let me log back into my account without verifying my identity by uploading MY GVT ID to some third party partner.
I really didn’t like this idea 🙂↔️
Operational Security isn’t my strong suite, but I was like ain’t no way I’m doing this.
I explored every alternative they had, but they would not budge.
I got a letter from a notary, gave them my work email, the whole nine yards.
I realized that even though I had submitted a support ticket, the interactions I was having seemed to be with bots.
Eventually I caved 🥴
Why?
LinkedIn is where I get most of my tech news, specifically cybersecurity news.
I don’t use X because of how much explicit content is on that platform.
Even if you aren’t looking for it, it’ll find you time and time again.
Also, I am trying to grow my following on LinkedIn so letting an account with 7000+ followers die isn’t worth fussing over submitting my ID to another company when every other big tech company knows everything about me 🤷🏾♂️
Sad, but true.
Project Idea
Anyways (Tony voice), this sparked a project idea.
Conducting a comprehensive OSINT investigation on the ID verification company.
I looked at reddit threads for a bit about the company and how other people had handled the verification request.
A lot of people didn’t go through with it and just let their accounts die.
LinkedIn is a dumpster fire or corporate cringe so they couldn’t care less.
Someone on one of the threads mentioned that the company is run out of a shady coworking space by a few people no one knows anything about.
I haven’t verified any of this information, but I would really love to know if it’s true.
That’s the project idea.
Conduct an investigation, publish your research and watch the internet go crazy if it’s actually true.
This would be great for your portfolio, it’s free, and you’ll get a lot of eyeballs from red team recruiters who need OSINT experts.
Police departments and other private agencies are usually on the hunt for OSINT experts as well.
I would really love to know what’s under the hood of this whole partnership and the people running Persona.
If you decide to do the research, let me know, I’ll be on the forefront of helping you promote it to the masses.
Unless it turns out to be a big nothing burger 😂
Here’s the reddit thread to kickoff your research:
Anyways, that’s it. Happy hacking. Cheers.