ARAN KHANNA was ready. He would begin an internship at Facebook from there a few days. But then he had a very bad idea: to make known to all a flaw Messenger, chat linked to the social network of Mark Zuckerberg, of which no one knew. No one outside the system builders Facebook. Located in Palo Alto in fact it had been known for at least three years: Messenger automatically shares the position of the users with whom you are chatting. Aran Khanna, Harvard student, noticed it and, before the expected start of his internship, he posted on his blog an application called Marauder’s Map. This is an extension of Chrome that allows you to “follow” their friends through Messenger flaw. And not only friends, even people in the same group chat. Once posted the news on Twitter Marauder’s Map has become viral, so get to be downloaded 85,000 times in a few days. But it could not pass unnoticed by the watchful eyes of the social networks most used in the world that has asked its future intern immediately disable the app and not to talk to the press. A nothing is served, however the fact that Aran has followed instructions to the letter: shortly after he received a phone call from Facebook who wrote terminating the internship. The reason? The blog post was not appropriate to “high ethical standards” of the company. A week after the fact, the company has released an update of the app Messenger: “With this update, you have full control of how and when sharing your location information. “
- Arguments:
- geolocation
- updates
- Messenger
- privacy
- Starring:
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