[a85]

Hello all,

Postman founder here. I did not time this with an AWS outage of this magnitude but I posted about filesystem, git, and offline support coming to Postman last week: https://x.com/a85/status/1978979495836356819?s=46

Postman has a lot of capabilities now that require the cloud but there is still an offline client built in just for requests.

Building sign-in and cloud features were not due to a VC-led conspiracy. A large number of companies depend on APIs (like AWS) and have thousands of services and APIs. Customers need to manage them and wanted us to build it.

[victop]

Please can you address the claim that Postman is silently leaking customer secrets to your servers as part of telemetry?

https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your...

[a85]

Yes. The post is misleading and we have more detail on what we do here.

https://blog.postman.com/engineering/postman-free-is-secure-...

Postman allows for turning off history, keeping variables local, setting up a local vault all in the free product and in more advanced plans, there are secret scanning capabilities for IT and security teams.

https://blog.postman.com/choose-the-right-postman-plan-for-y...

These issues are not unique to Postman and apply to all cloud products like GitHub as an instance. Products that are “offline” just shift the burden to the user.