After reading about the CEO of Automaticc/#Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg, intercepting emails from teamblind.com to intimidate employees to not sign up, I thought about how #TeamBlind could potentially verify employment without touching company systems.
It looks like LinkedIn is working on employment verification which is currently only partially rolled out, but when it reaches general availability, it could be an interesting proxy to explore for this kind of verification. 🤔
<p>Oh look at this</p><img src="https://goblin.band/files/83b69351-b17a-45cc-84f4-9c1389811dfd" /><p>So automattic/Tumblr's CEO is making th<span style="color:var(--fg);font-size:[object Object]">e company email servers to redirect all mail from </span><a target="_blank" href="http://Blind.com"><span style="color:var(--fg);font-size:[object Object]">Blind.com</span></a><span style="color:var(--fg);font-size:[object Object]">‡ to his own personal address instead of the actual person who registered to Blind, so he can know who signed up using their corporate email (the only way to sign up). </span></p><p><span style="color:var(--fg);font-size:[object Object]">Not only that, but by doing this, he could just go through the company email address list, hit the "forgot your password" link, and find out who already has an account, and even steal it. </span></p><p><span style="color:var(--fg);font-size:[object Object]">Very sane, not creepy, absolutely not sociopath move, sire. Absolutely normal and not crazy maniac behavior. </span></p><p><span style="color:var(--fg);font-size:[object Object]">‡ If you don't know blind, it's a platform that let employees of a company to anonymously talk between them about their employer </span></p> 📎
Michael Henriksen
Anders Eknert