Facebook Cancels Internship Of Harvard Student

The media company has recently fired an internship student for making a plug-in that helped the user to obtain the location of all the users he talks to on the Facebook Messenger app.

Facebook Inc recently offered internship to a Harvard student named Aran Khanna who ended up creating a new plug-in on the Google Chrome extension which would help the user to know where all of his friends were presently.

This plug-in was a proof that the security system that was observed by the social media network was not good enough and the loophole in it gave space to the student to make something like that, which so easily entered other people’s personal information without their consent. As per a news article by ABC news, it was stated that the media company has decided to terminate Mr. Khanna from continuing with his internship due to what was done by him. The analysts believe that this has made it even clearer to the general public that the flaws in the security system were much more than realized by anybody in the industry.

Aran Khanna was recently offered an internship from Facebook business but things turned out differently when the firm realized he has made a plug-in named ‘Marauder’s Map’ which helped him to track the location of all of his friends, which was something that showed how flawed the whole privacy system was on the media site.

Back in the month of May when Mr. Khanna created the plug-in, it went extremely viral and was downloaded by a massive 85,000 times which showed that the popularity it received match no other plug-in. Originally, Facebook has allowed only two users using the Messenger app to know the location of one another but through this plug in, the user could know the location of anyone he started a conversation with on the messenger app. This was violating the privacy laws of the firm which was why the media company asked Mr. Khanna to take the plug in down and to discontinue with it as soon as possible.

Mr. Khanna obliged and took it off and restricted all kinds of usage on it, but only after a mere three days, it was seen Facebook management asked him to discontinue with his internship as the act that was carried out by him has violated many rules and regulations, something that they could not allow to happen.

Analysts believe that Mr. Khanna shows that he is capable of carrying out the extraordinary on the largest media site in the world and that instead of firing him, they could use him and hire him instead. Also, analysts believe that this student should also be rewarded for his mind that made him achieve something so big on the most protected media site ever.