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The Login Loop of Doom.

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry . Code snippets are recreated and anonymized for illustrative purposes.

  • Developer encountered endless login loop with Auth0 Universal Login page
  • Custom JWT validation middleware compared exp claim to local server time, not UTC
  • Fix involved comparing expiration time against UTC and handling 401 errors differently

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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she…

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