“They stated that my actions were not up to the “high ethical standards” expected of interns,” Aran Khanna told BuzzFeed News.
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 However, after pointing out a massive flaw in Facebook's messenger app on Android devices, his internship was revoked.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.
"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.
Aran Khanna
Khanna dubbed the app "Marauder's Map" and it was downloaded 85,000 times when it was released.
Khanna released the app via a Medium post named "Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger."
Aran Kanna
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