Aran Khanna
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Aran Khanna
Aran Khanna
Aran Khana is a programmer and Harvard University undergraduate.
He received prominent media attention for creating the Facebook Marauders Map, a Chrome browser extension which allows Facebook users to aggregate the geo-location data embedded within the Messenger application by default.
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Citation Linkarankhanna.comAran's personal website.If you didn't think he was a baller yet, you will after seeing his work.
Aug 13, 2015, 9:49 PM
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Citation Linkmedium.comAran's infamous Medium post highlighting the lax opt-out features bundled with FB Messenger app such as sharing a default location with every message and how he built his Marauder Map app to demonstrate how sketchy the information really is.
Aug 13, 2015, 9:24 PM
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Citation Linkcnbc.comAran had a summer internship lined up with Facebook until his offer was rescinded due to the contreversy his Marauders Map extension caused, but the snaffu raised a lot of media attention on Aran's awesome work.
Aug 13, 2015, 10:07 PM