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Your Token Proves Who You Are, Not What You Own

calendar_today February 25, 2026 person Brad McCarty, Dan Moore domain fusionauth

One engineer reverse-engineered his DJI vacuum’s API for fun and accidentally accessed 7,000 devices worldwide. Here’s the authorization failure that made it possible — and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.

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