BrianKrebsFeb 8, 2025

I've started posting on LinkedIn all the unconstitutional shit Trump and Musk are doing to undermine the security and integrity of our government. Mainly because that crowd needs to hear it most. It's incredible how many people in the infosec space are still defending the actions of DOGE and its dear leader(s). And they're not all crypto bros and AI peddlers; we're talking about people in some pretty important roles, tech-wise.

But at least when they reply with the inevitable "stay in your lane" or "I used to like you when you stayed out of politics," they are on record as complicit and totally okay with what is going on.

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Oops, I did it again. Dustin's resume says he is VP information security manager for Wells Fargo. Are we detecting a theme here?

Shall I go on?

Feb 9, 2025 at 12:31amWeb
Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 9, 2025
LinkedIn has to be the only social network I've ever been on that hides its most controversial comments.
Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 9, 2025
Here's how you find any possibly controversial comments on LinkedIn: You incessantly hit the "load more comments" link. Over. And Over. And Over. It's almost like LinkedIn is aware of its more embarrassing takes. Or maybe I'm giving their AI too much credit.
Show threadkwayk42Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs they keep trying to recommend mental health groups whenever I don't post something endorsing the stupidity on the platform... I don't think their AI is built to favor reality
Show threadJoe ❌👑Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs I quit LinkedIn a very long time ago because the spam was intolerable and I had a position I was happy with and no, person I don't know, you can't be in my "professional network". But I guess they do take a different approach to controversy. The other social networks usually amplify it because it drives engagement and clicks, but they seem to amplify the boring stuff.
Show threadLed By Gilded FoolsFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs Why wouldn't LI create AI "users" that post what you are seeing, even in response to your posts about the Constitution?
Show threadBrianKrebsFeb 9, 2025
@MHowell LI is just one potential battlefield. And they really don't want be anyone's battlefield.
Show threadBotoloFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs should we consider a Fediverse version of LinkedIn?
Show threadThomas Barrett 👨‍💻Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs you know how algorithms go. I really don’t find LinkedIn enlightening. Just a dull social media that begs for money!
Show threadDr. Ogg Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs tangant sorry, was looking at your linked in, i was also connected with Drew Daniels worked with him at Microsoft.
Show threadSteve WartFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs I get zero engagement there on anything that criticizes the alt-right tech complex
Show threadSraarsFeb 9, 2025
@swart @briankrebs Temporarily embarrassed millionaire/billionaires.
Show threadWinfried is Anti Fascism 🏳️‍🌈Feb 9, 2025
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@briankrebs
The essence of LinkedIn is being an advertisement platform for the tech complex and it moves more and more from connecting ideas to advertisement. Quite tell tale for the current state of the tech industry
Show threadInterpipes 💙Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs “disagreement is unprofessional” or something, presumably
Show threadgaryFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs
Show threadphiltor 🇺🇦🌻Feb 9, 2025

@briankrebs it's kind of the social network for the office. So like you're not supposed to be controversial at work, you're supposed to stick to safe subjects on LinkedIn - that seems like the tacit agreement that people on LinkedIn buy into. Kind of like Severance where your office life and your outside life are supposed to be completely separate.

Lately though, I've started posting things that are critical of the Musk regime because we can't just act like things are normal.

Show threadphiltor 🇺🇦🌻Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs thanks for speaking up on LinkedIn, because you're right: that's exactly the place where people need to hear about this stuff.
Show threadtheHastyOneFeb 9, 2025

@philtor @briankrebs

I haven’t found this to be true. LinkedIn for me has been sales people/recuiters trying to get me for things I don’t want. And then every terrible person you have ever seen at an office complain/brag about how on one works as hard as they do and they are carrying everyone.

And truthfully it has been everything I haven’t missed since going 100% remote

Show threadLiberty and Justice For AllFeb 9, 2025

@briankrebs It depends what you mean by "controversial"

The most promoted are just disgustingly controversial... just in their own way

Show threadIchinin   ✅🎯🙄Feb 9, 2025

@briankrebs LinkedIn is just a platform for shameless self promotion, there is no value or information to be gained from it.

I'm only there so recruiters can find me.

Show threadDan Morgan Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs It’s also the most dangerous one to post on. My former CEO used to stalk his employees on there and pull us into one-on-one meetings to discuss our public posts.
Show threadKris Mitka  Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs anyone want to start a LinkedOut, where everything that needed to be said on linked in gets said?
Show threadDr. Ogg Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs YES, call it out all day long. Party affiliation should have ZERO bearing on your nation's security stance.
Show threadPhilip Mallegol-HansenFeb 9, 2025

@briankrebs “Politics don’t belong on a business networking site”

Well call me crazy Bob, but I don’t want to do business with Nazis.

Show threadAlexanderVIFeb 9, 2025

@philip

I assume this was his first day on LinkedIn? It's practically Facebook at this point.

@briankrebs

Show threadJeff CraigFeb 9, 2025

@briankrebs A guy who works for the scummiest US national Bank doesn't understand that everything is political.

Got it.

Show threadEdFeb 9, 2025

@foxxtrot @briankrebs

#StoryChecksOut

Show threadmarcinkFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs It would be interesting to see the Venn diagram of these and the people who have been recommending E2EE and cryptocurrencies to “stay safe from government overreach”.
Show threadVissFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs oh, was he maybe one of the folks helping wells launder money for the cartels? because that was a thing.
Show threadPG&E Delenda EstFeb 9, 2025
@Viss @briankrebs 2025 is an excellent year to reread "the lost bank" about Washington Mutual planting all the bombs that exploded into the 2008 financial crisis, and the CTO who was clearly a primary source for the book laying the blame on unqualified "growth at all costs" gremlins running IT at the banks they acquired ignoring documented risk and security guidelines with the hand waving of the CEO.
Show threadVissFeb 9, 2025
@xarph @briankrebs whoa, i had no idea washington mutual did all that. they were my bank for a while and they were really good to me
Show threadPG&E Delenda EstFeb 9, 2025

@Viss @briankrebs starting in 2005 they got a CEO who went an an acquisition spree and bought up every thrift that had a mortgage division in order to sell more mortgage backed securities. Then every other bank saw that, didn't want to be left out, and did the same.

We then saw what happened when they ran out of qualified borrowers.

Good book, I recommend it.

Show threadInlaingFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs eyeroll, the world where politics is anything I personally don't do/think
Show threadGrumpy GrampFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs Wells Fargo? Weren't they nipped for laundering cartel money to the tune of several billion U$?
Show threaddon Elías (como los buses) 🥨Feb 9, 2025
@briankrebs "threat hunters" that are unable to see the biggest and most obvious existential threats to their operations and their society, shame on them "experts"
Show threadstandevFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs I mean, bank infosec is trash, so at least it’s on theme
Show threadKasey StrubeFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs smaller institutions absolutely rely on resources such as CISA and threat intelligence from sources like KrebsOnSecurity to keep their members/depositors information safe. Cybersecurity is apolitical. If the current administration is compromising our nations’ cyber security resources (and their own cyber stances to make way for DOGE) for political reasons, reporting on it isn’t political in my opinion.
Show threadoldninjaxFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs oof, it’s tough when you see folks you know in the comments spouting bad takes
Show threadRaven OnthillFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs people who don't think the leopards will eat their faces. Wealth and privilege are great drugs.
Show threadDemianFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs effin banks! Showing us which side they’re on
Show threadaardvarkFeb 9, 2025
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Show threadStefan EissingFeb 9, 2025

@briankrebs So, it‘s not infosec when it’s ‚political‘.

But it‘s not ‚political‘ when it‘s about government contracts. That‘s business!

Except when it‘s about a contract between the people and their government, that is definitely ‚political‘.

As they say: „When everyone cares only about themselves, everyone is cared for!“

Show threadIanFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs seems like you could BANK on a certain type of person responding like this.
Show threadMormegilFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs
When Wells Fargo gets hacked, would they first ask whether the perpetrator claimed to have political reasons for hacking and if yes, would they leave it be, or would they just defend against the attack?
Show threadfamousringoFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs “Stay out of politics, it’s none of your business,” is what they used to say in Russia and they’re coming up on a million casualties to show for it.
Show threadTim PequignotFeb 9, 2025
@briankrebs Sounds like "Leave us alone, we rich folk are doing a thing here"