Still though, somebody could delete all the movies and showtimes in a couple of clicks. I presume you have the JSON backed up but it's still going to get annoying if somebody decides they want to be a dick.

true [backs up data]. the system will also auto-recover by falling back to the RT/YT/YQL APIs if someone does that, though pages will load significantly slower and Rotten Tomatoes will throw a bunch of rate-limiting errors until Firebase is repopulated.

I'll be honest, it's kind of fun to go to [REDACTED URL] and delete the list of movies and watch them repopulate as people load the site...

Sorry, I'll stop.

Seriously though, this is a neat toy/prototyping platform, but they desperately need to add some security for it to be really useful.

This was also a concern after browsing trough the tutorial. how do we secure the data if it's available to everyone ;)