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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by moneywoes on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:04AM (#36197194)
How would those api keys be exposed if it’s an app?
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by narrowtux on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:06AM (#36197231)
Inspecting the app's content or the network traffic.
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by judge2020 on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:06AM (#36197221)
Decompiling apps even on iOS is not too hard, typically API keys would either be in resource files or exposed via strings in the binary itself.
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