Re:Uber CLI
by kfrzcode on Thursday February 23, 2017 @08:53PM
(#13720146)
So if I clone this repo I can now access your API account? Might want to pull this repository from Github......
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Re:Uber CLI
by jaebradley on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:33PM
(#13720695)
You would have access to my server token, certainly. But I checked the documentation and in order to request rides, I think you would need other pieces of information that I did not expose. Additionally, there are various scopes that Uber grants regarding the API exposure that any application has.
I think / hope that the worst damage that can be done is hitting Uber's rate limit.
Definitely not defending my decision to include the server token, but I don't think it's the end of the world (just terrible practice).
until they launch a new API endpoint and forget to enforce something...