Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI ...

API key exploitation is more than hypothetical. In a different context, a student who reportedly exposed a GCP API key on GitHub last June was left nursing a $55,444 bill (later waived by Google) ...

Following the Gemini automation announcement today, Google is detailing how all this works under the hood on Android.

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