Has this ever happened to you? I'm doing some work research on CISOs and so I'm going through 500 CISO accounts on LinkedIn, just trying to figure out if they still work for the same company as they did in 2024 (Note: Ton of churn). I've got an Excel spreadsheet open and using it as my tracking list to confirm if the CISO is still working at the same place or not. I'm there is an automated way of doing this, but it would probably take me more time to create and test the automated method than to just laboriously do it manually. So, that's what I'm doing. I'm manually, quickly as I can, going through 500 CISO accounts on LinkedIn. It's taking me about an hour per 100-200 CISOs. Around 300-400 checks, LinkedIn starts to interrupt me and then completely block me asking to stop using automated tools to do screen scraping. They even suspend my account and make me file an appeal to promise not to use automated tools in the future. I don't know whether to be offended or to give myself a pat on the back for being so efficient that LinkedIn believes I'm an automated tool -- RogerGPT coming soon!!
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