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by dec0dedab0de 2120 days ago
* Is it highly unlikely, sure, but it's important to create awareness of the risks associated. At the end of the day, you are sending potentially sensitive data to a third party.*

I don't think it is highly unlikely. I think it is highly likely that if you make a habit of using these tools one of them will eventually be compromised. Either through a technical hack, financial pressure, purchase by an immoral entity, or a disgruntled employee somewhere along the path.

Then again if it's just for testing/learning, and the data isn't really sensitive who cares, use what's easiest. Most of the time the easiest for me is jupyter so I can test how it actually works, and when I'm finished I have working code.

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The likelihood of compromise depends on data being sent + chance of said service being malicious, which is why I said highly unlikely. Even if I gave you a JWT or config file, you'd still have to know how and where to use it. Sometimes this can be obvious, sometimes even if you know how, you can't access the where like if the credentials contained access to a db local to only my machine or to a server behind a firewall.