Linkedin wants me to know they've been hax0red.

May 24th, 2016

I almost look professional here. Almost.

Linkedin was breached a bit back.

I recall signing up for a Linkedin account back in the day, after I was laid off by those outsourcing traitors at ADT, when I was attempting to secure new employment. Thanks to the economy being a complete disastrophe due to the abundance of leadership incompetence on display during the Bush years, this took a whole lot longer than it ever has for me - and I've been laid off a few times.

The funny thing is that I had to hear about this to remember not only that Linkedin exists, but that I built a profile there. I heard about this a few days before the media jumped on the latest news about this, because Linkedin sent me an electronic message indicating that said profile was 'threatened' by dirty evil cinematic moustache twirling hacker villains, and that I should update my password.

I'm not inclined to, much less really inclined to care, because it's not like Linkedin ever actually helped me get a job. No, all it's really done is managed, over the last few days, to annoy me by having countless people from China asking me to add them to my list of contacts. You know, people who probably haven't had profiles of their own until this current situation came to a head.

So I may well go and delete it. Or I may spruce it up by talking about my current occupation as the Grand Poobah of the Church of Marduk. Or, you know, something similarly amusing. It's not like they can actually do anything about it, after all. And besides, maybe it'll get me a few job offers. Marduk knows that what I've got on there now isn't doing anything for my career.

Overrated appendix of a web site. Feh.

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