Facebook Intern Gets Preemptive Ax For Exposing Security Flaw

Engadget reports that Harvard student Aran Khanna, who was about to begin an internship at Facebook, had that internship yanked after he created (and took down, but evidently too slowly for the company's taste) a browser plug-in that exposed a security flaw in Facebook, by allowing users to discover the location of other users when they use the Messenger app. Surely Khanna won't be jobless or internship-less for long. (Don't expect the app to work now; it's still in the Chrome store as a historical artifact, though, and at GitHub.)

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You people are idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

It was published THREE YEARS ago by CNet and others. What the fuck was he supposed to disclose exactly? I'm sick and tired of people not doing the minimal amount of reading necessary to avoid rail roading a privacy researcher with a priori judgments.

Also it's not a security flaw, its a feature: they push this data to your box. All he did was write some JavaScript to display it on a map.

Re:dear clueless megacorp and mediocre middle mgmn

[phantomfive]

Consider it another way.....his life will now be measurably improved by working for a company besides Facebook.