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by smitop 2514 days ago
Couldn't a bad actor abuse liveTr() and call it with a ton of random strings to make me pay to translate a ton of garbage data?
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A bad actor could only abuse liveTr() to spend your money if they had access to your API keys, which hopefully should be a secret. In these cases, you'll also be able to report bad strings coming in through your dashboard, and we'll take care of the bad actor and re-fund you immediately!
Presumably you would have to build protections into your own app to prevent that, much like any other user input abuse.