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How do you implement certificate pinning in a mobile app, and why is it important for API security? What are the trade-offs?

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Certificate pinning is a security technique that restricts which TLS certificates your mobile app trusts when communicating with your API servers. By default, mobile apps trust any certificate signed by any Certificate Authority in the device's trust store.

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