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Unless you can use per-user keys (for example, if you control the server API) you basically can't do it. This is the same problem that DRM faces: you can't give the user the keys to the car and prevent them from driving it.

Wow, that's a great analogy. I will use that next time I have to explain the flaws of client side security to somebody.

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