A Facebook Intern Exposed a Major Privacy Problem - So They Fired Him
This 2015 Mic article covers Aran Khanna's Marauder's Map, a browser extension that tracked friends through Facebook Message location data. Bugcrowd CEO Casey Ellis told Mic that Facebook would ordinarily welcome such reports, but it enforces its rules when they are violated, and white hats need ground rules to avoid anarchy.
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When Aran Khanna released the Marauder's Map, a browser extension that lets you track your friends using their Facebook Message location info, he thought Facebook would be impressed. He was, after all, a few weeks away from starting an internship…