Harvard student loses Facebook gig for app that shows flaws
http://www.sfgate.com/business/technology/article/Harvard-student-s-app-leads-to-loss-of-Facebook-6442170.php
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.
He told Boston.com (
http://bit.ly/1NcW7km ) he created the app to show the consequences of unintentionally sharing data and thought he was doing a public service....
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 the offer because he had violated the Facebook user agreement when he scraped the site for data.