Facebook rescinds internship from student who exposed app privacy flaws
by Associated Press in Boston from on (#HA16)
Harvard student Aran Khanna lost position after he launched app called Marauder's Map that could pinpoint location of Facebook Messenger users
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.
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