Some Kid Lost his Internship With Facebook When He Tweeted Out Flaws In Their Privacy Settings8/14/2015 Boston.com- Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna was preparing to start a coveted internship at Facebook when he launched a browser application from his dorm room that angered the social media behemoth.
The app capitalized on a privacy flaw that Facebook had been aware of for about three years: the Facebook Messenger app automatically shared users’ locations with anyone who they messaged. Khanna tweeted about the app on May 26 and posted about it on Reddit and Medium. Marauder’s Map began to go viral. Facebook, never one to miss a trend, quickly caught on. Within three days, Facebook asked Khanna to disable the app. The company also deactivated location sharing from desktops, which meant Khanna’s app wouldn’t work even if he hadn’t taken it down. And the company that Mark Zuckerberg famously launched from his Harvard dorm room withdrew its internship offer from this Harvard student, who apparently made the mistake of...launching an app from his dorm room. Three days after the extension was posted, and 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 his summer internship offer. Khanna said he was told that he violated the Facebook user agreement when he scraped the site for data. The next day, Facebook asked him to deactivate the extension. He did, but also updated his Medium post and the extension’s description to make it clear that Facebook asked him to disable the map. Three days after the extension was posted, and 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 his summer internship offer. Khanna said he was told that he violated the Facebook user agreement when he scraped the site for data. Oh man, I can’t believe questioning the arrogant CEO of a multi billion dollar internet company didn’t work out for you. I am thoroughly stunned that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t take kindly to a prospective intern tweeting out a known flaw in his increasingly valuable social media site. Who knew that would end in a premature termination from the company? Hey dude, maybe devote an hour or two to a screening of the ‘The Social Network’ before you imply that you know more about privacy settings than a man whose company pretty much relies on their use. Do they not teach ‘Common Fucking Sense 101’ at Harvard? Is thinking rationally just a skill that Zuckerberg picked up outside of class? Of course this dude got canned. That’s what happens when you challenge the intelligence of a guy that stole the preliminary idea for his website from another classmate. You know, the same guy that fucked over his financier once the company started to expand at a rapid rate. Probably should just do whatever you can to not get the attention of that guy when you are trying to turn an internship into a prestigious occupation. Everyone has a guy like this that they have worked with. Just the know-it-all asshole that makes others look bad by being a try hard. The difference is, most of those people already have real jobs. You’re an intern Khanna. Just be a fucking intern. Distribute coffee. Stay out of everyone’s way. Most importantly, just shut the fuck up. People don’t want you around, and they certainly don’t want you hitting them with breaking news that they have known for the last three years. That Harvard education isn’t all that impressive when attempting to work for one of the most famous Harvard graduates ever. I’m not saying that this guy doesn’t have a high paying job in his very near future, but I am saying he might benefit from studying how a chain of command works.
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