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Mazda is angry a customer used an API in a manner they couldn't control. You can read the DMCA takedown notice here.

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[–] AdamEatsAss 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also isn't it Mazda's fault for creating an API that anyone can access and get information from? Someone in Mazda IT is probably frantically looking for the email chain where he was told to "just make it public" so our outside analysts can use it.

[–] agent_flounder 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think yes, assuming nobody grabbed an API key out of the Mazda app or something.

[–] droans 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite often these integrations just take the authentication token or cookie during OAuth or the normal login process.

Actions like that would be impossible with WEI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is a joke

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A huge project at my work got pushed back because a company we are working with decided to make the API public...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 4 points 1 year ago

It's a good thing it is getting changed, not a good thing it got pushed back farther because of them. Already been pushed back 4 months