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Re:Thousands of Mobile Apps Leak Data from Firebase Databases by com2kid on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:55PM (#17388585)
> Services like this should simply not function at all until basic things like a password are put in place.

New Firebase instances starts off locked down by default, not allowing global reads or writes.

Re:Thousands of Mobile Apps Leak Data from Firebase Databases by orev on Sunday June 24, 2018 @07:35PM (#17388958)
The fact that this was not the default since the inception of the service is inexcusable. Sadly, too many other projects still take the approach of yelling at people in some document somewhere instead of forcing security by default.