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oAuth APIs Explained

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

CHAPTER

How to Protect Your Access Tokens

Someone has access to those tokens, they don't actually have access to your password. You can have two factor auth set up and often you'll need to put in your two factor auth to generate an access token but as soon as Somebody has that access token. Yeah, that that's the key. So if anybody has those tokens those those tokens are essentially the key to the kingdom. That's why they expire so often is because Maybe they're only good for eight hours and if a database leak gets out or something like that All of those access tokens will be stale. I did it with my sister's bookmarks the other day. She's like she called me up And she's like my

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