A friend of the family publicly posted “Secret Clearance” on a LinkedIn profile as part of the verbiage immediately seen on the person’s landing page. I was shocked when I saw it.
I’m not an expert and don’t know if this is a violation vs. stupid, but at a minimum it seems like it would be a security risk for bad actors to potentially compromise this person? Who BTW works in IT for DHS. I thought clearances were to be kept more on the down low and suggested to the person they remove the clearance and stop advertising it.
A former co-worker did not list his clearance but did mention some information security related technologies he worked on. After a number of mysterious friend requests (or whatever LinkedIn calls it), he decided to take that information off his page.
By the way, there was a news article in the computer security headlines about Microsoft (who now runs LinkedIn) loading some kind of HUGE javascript file onto your computer to look for various extensions you have loaded into your browser. Have not heard the rest of this but I dont think Microsoft really needs to know that so I have not visited LinkedIn recently.
I don’t doubt you read that, but I find that hard to believe they would actually be doing that since Microsoft is so risk averse. That kind of thing can make them vulnerable to litigation. Maybe LinkedIn was doing it before MS came in?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying you have a clearance or where you have worked unless you are in a protected status. It’s common practice. If you aren’t able to be compromised, then there is no reason to fear it. People get pitched all the time, Simply report it.