1 | A Harvard University student says he lost his internship at Facebook after he launched a browser application that exploited privacy flaws on its mobile messenger. |
2 | Aran Khanna's app showed that users of Facebook Messenger could pinpoint the exact locations of people they were talking to. |
3 | Khanna posted the app from his dorm room in May and tells Boston.com (http://bit.ly/1NcW7km ) 85,000 people downloaded it. |
4 | Facebook asked Khanna to disable it. |
5 | A week later, Facebook released a Messenger app update addressing the flaw that a company spokesman said had been in the works for months. |
6 | Khanna received a call from Facebook telling him the company was rescinding his internship offer because he violated the Facebook user agreement. |
7 | Facebook was launched from a Harvard dorm room in 2004. |