Harvard student loses Facebook gig for app that shows flaws
BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University student says he lost his internship at Facebook after he launched a browser application from his dorm room that exploited privacy flaws on the company's mobile messenger.
Aran Khanna's app — called Marauder's Map in tribute to the Harry Potter books — showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to.
Two hours before he was supposed to leave to start his internship, Khanna received a call from a Facebook employee telling him that the company was rescinding the offer because he had violated the Facebook user agreement when he scraped the site for data.