Beware: The Hidden Risks of Unverified JSON Web Token Sharing

A JWT isn't just JSON you can inspect. It's a live bearer token. Here's a safer way to decode one. A few days ago I was reviewing a bug with a teammate. They wanted to see what was inside an access token, so they copied it into the first JWT decoder Google returned. It wasn't a dummy token. It was a

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