During passive reconnaissance, you want to compile a list of employees who publicly claim to work for "MediSure Ltd" on LinkedIn, but you do not want to log in or use the LinkedIn interface itself. Instead, you decide to rely on Google to return only personal profile pages while filtering out company, job, or directory listings. Which of the following Google dorks will most effectively achieve this goal?
The dork that targets personal LinkedIn profile URLs is the one that restricts results to the "/in" URI (used exclusively for individual profiles) and excludes common non-profile paths such as "/dir" and "/jobs". Adding the organization's name in quotes further narrows hits to people who state they work for that company. The pattern site:linkedin.com/in "MediSure Ltd" -dir -jobs meets all of these requirements. The other queries either permit non-profile sections like /company or /pub, omit useful path filters, or filter on irrelevant keywords, so they are more likely to return extra pages that are not individual employee profiles.
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