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Nadim Chowdhury
Nadim Chowdhury

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Your Developer Tools Might Be an Unmonitored Data Exit Point

A quick exercise for engineering managers and security leads:

  1. Open Chrome DevTools on the utility site your team uses to format JSON or decode tokens.
  2. Switch to the 'Network' tab.
  3. Paste a mock string into the input area.
  4. Filter by Fetch/XHR.

Did the website fire a POST or PUT request?
Did it send your pasted payload across the wire?
Who owns the IP address on the other side?

If the answer is anything other than 'zero requests fired,' that tool represents an unmonitored data exit point for your organization.

Switch your team to client-side workstations that execute locally:
https://utilifi.vercel.app

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