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Ted F.7's avatar
Ted F.7
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Access Tokens, Fiddler, Security

Hi, Someone uses Fiddler to get my access token which is normally hidden from our apps users. Don't they now have access to my Dropbox through the API?  I read some of the other posts about this ...
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Richard P.'s avatar
Richard P.
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9 years ago

That "trouble" is two or three clicks at most with a modern IDE.  Remember that these days we often aren't dealing with a "binary", but rather something that is interpreted or requires a runtime to operate in...

SSL doesnt close all the doors in this case - it simply closes one door.  Don't pretend otherwise.

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