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Facebook Cancelled A Harvard Student's Internship After He Exposed A Massive Glitch In Their System http://ift.tt/1Mq5U64
FACE BOOK IS IMPOSING MESSENGER ON ITS CLIENTS .I TRIED TO DOWN LOAD THIS STUPID SYSTEM ON MY MY IPHONE BUT IT JUST DOES NOT LOAD . SO I CANNOT COMMUNICATE WITH ANYONE VIA MY I PHONE.
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Facebook Cancelled A Harvard Student’s Internship After He Exposed A Massive Glitch In Their System
“They stated that my actions were not up to the “high ethical standards” expected of interns,” Aran Khanna told BuzzFeed News.
posted on Aug. 15, 2015, at 8:19 p.m.
Harvard student Aran Khanna was supposed to intern with Facebook starting in June. However, after pointing out a massive flaw in Facebook’s messenger app on Android devices, his internship was revoked.
Aran Khanna
Upon realising that that people using the Facebook Messenger app share their location with everyone they message by default, Khanna built a Google Chrome plugin that could accurately track the movement of anyone that they had messaged on Facebook.
Aran Khanna
“Facebook was defaulting users into sending their location data with every message from the Android application. As an avid user of messenger this feature had frustrated me for a while, so I built an extension that displayed the location data that messenger was sharing with you on a map (though you didn’t need an extension for this you could do it with a pencil and a piece of paper), and I shared this project with friends and family to see what they thought about this feature revealing all this data, not expecting the app to go viral the way it did,” Khanna stated in an email to BuzzFeed.
Khanna dubbed the app “Marauder’s Map” and it was downloaded 85,000 times when it was released.
Aran Kanna
Khanna released the app via a Medium post named “Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger.”
In the post, Khanna explains that Facebook provides screenshots of how Facebook Messenger collects location data.
Via Medium
Via Medium
According to Khanna, within three days of launching the app, Facebook told him to take down the plugin and then rescinded his internship invitation.
Aran Khanna
“Facebook’s response to the blog post and extension was to ask me to not speak to the press about it and then to disable the extension. Finally they rescinded my internship offer citing the fact that my code broke Facebook’s user agreement (which every FB user signs when they join the site) by “scraping” the site. They additionally stated that my actions were not up to the “high ethical standards” expected of interns,” Khanna stated.
BuzzFeed has reached out to Facebook for a comment but has not received a response yet.
Andre Borges is a writer for BuzzFeed and is based in Mumbai.
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