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LinkedIn fairly safe #

By Chris Gray Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 17:13 GMT

You can accomplish pretty much everything on LinkedIn with JavaScript turned off, so it continues to be a fairly safe site.

Berk is rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt #

By Francis Fish Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 17:24 GMT

... and was judged unparliamentry language some years ago. Please, don't use it. Fuck is fine for me though, carry on ... nothing to see here.

Berk etc. #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 6th January 2009 19:47 GMT

Akshully, Berkshire Hunt is rhyming slang for C***. Berk is the approved short form version.

Something smells of fish, though......

Hard to imagine? #

By David Wiernicki Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 00:30 GMT

"It's hard to imagine many (if any) would have been taken in by such a crude and transparently bogus ruse..."

...but then again, I got a nigerian spam yesterday - totally normal, except FROM: was "NIGERIAN SCAMMERS". Seriously.

Not the best place to spread malware... #

By Ian Hendry Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 08:40 GMT

Surely most people on LinkedIn, which boasts it has the highler echelons of society, would smell a rat when a "celebrity" is using a professional networking site to tout nude pictures?

Apat from which, LinkedIn proactively discourages you from connecting to people you don't already know, so it's quite unlikely you'll be surfing for celebs in the first place.

Not the best place to be spreading malware.

Ian Hendry

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