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I think kordless has a key insight here: it doesn't say the lawyers visited all of them and only them. The devs may still be fairly anonymous in a big pool of devs that was visited- a dragnet, as it were. We don't know yet.

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True, but a "dragnet" across (for example) all Argentinian devs with experience in Ruby and React (substitute whatever skills make sense)would have hits outside this small group. If enough people were this scared about LinkedIn visits, they'd likely have friends or colleagues outside the PopcornTime group saying "Oh yeah, he looked at my profile too. Don't worry about it."

I'm just saying, I imagine they wouldn't be scared about it if it was a big net fishing for info. Could be sensationalism for the story though.

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