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by wglb 1867 days ago
> So all of reddit, every page, needs to reverify its auth token every request?

Yes.

> Like, what is the worst that is gonna happen in a five minute window between logout and the token expiring?

Complete compromise of your reddit account.

> But every read request for a normal user? You are telling me that those all need to re-verify every request?

For information that is not public, yes.

> JWT is pretty rad, honestly.

In the eyes of an attacker, absolutely.