Many college students likely would covet an internship at
Facebook. One Harvard University student landed such an internship.
However, he says that the internship offer to him was rescinded by
Facebook because he reportedly exposed privacy flaws in Facebook's mobile
messenger. Is that correct or not, and what lesson has been
learned?
Harvard student, Aran Khanna, launched a browser application
from his dorm room. The app revealed that Facebook Messenger users
were able to precisely pinpoint the geographic locations of people
with whom they were communicating, as reported by The
Guardian.
Khanna's app is called "Marauder's Map" as a
tribute to Harry Potter books. Khanna reportedly stated that he
developed the app to demonstrate the results of
unintentionally sharing data, and as such, he believed he was
acting in the public interest. The app was launched several months
ago, and approximately 85,000 people have downloaded the app
already.
