Send a connection request to anyone on LinkedIn

You can also use this system to find the name of anyone whose LinkedIn profile says private instead of their name.

Find someone who instead of a name has Private, eg http://linkd.in/T0BzOz - then copy their view?id, eg. 196011057 and enter it after the viewee?id here - http://www.linkedin.com/miniprofile view=&vieweeID=196011057&context=nus. Then alakazam, you can see their name. Also, the auth type and auth token in the url will change as well when you click on the 'View Profile' button within the new view.

I didn't know LinkedIn limited connections to anyone before. Is this something based on newer accounts or accounts without a certain number of connects? I've always been able to 'connect' to anyone even outside of my network.

If you use your phone to search for the person (using a browser, not the app), you just get a connect option for everyone, regardless of the separation. The button just says "invite to connect", no warning about knowing them or not.

Slight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.

You can 'connect' with anyone at all on LinkedIn. I don't see what the news is here, or why you need a hack.

I just did a company search for Register.com, opened their page, click to see employees and every single one of them has a 'Connect' button.

What's the hack?

The link doesn't work any longer.

I'm guessing linkedin fixed the problem?