A JWT isn't just JSON you can inspect. It's a live bearer token. Here's a safer way to decode...
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 production access token with almost an hour left before it expired.
Nobody was trying to do anything risky—it was just the quickest way to inspect a JWT. That's exactly why this keeps happening.
You're debugging an auth issue. There's a JWT in a log line, or in an Authorization header you copied...
Last month I watched a teammate debug an auth bug by pasting a production JWT into the first "base64...
We have all done it. You get a bug in a staging or production environment, you grab the JSON Web...
Most developers paste production JWTs into online decoders without thinking. Here's a 10-second...
A few weeks ago, a junior developer on my team pasted a massive JSON payload containing production...
If you've done any of these in the last week — Googled "decode jwt online", clicked the first...
