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The issue here isn't so much Google. Just people being stupid and not taking the time to learn how to secure something
Seriously if you’re using Firebase already how the hell do you mess up auth? Firebase offers a free auth solution that’s pretty much a prerequisite to using any of the other services.
I'd argue there's poor design that could be patched here. From an article detailing the vulnerability (https://mrbruh.com/chattr/):
then later:
That it's somehow faster or easier to (mis)configure a system such that you have full read/write is poor design. Secure by default, principles of least privilege; stuff that you want the implementers of the system to stick to so that when you're a user (restaurants), you don't need to think about this sort of thing.
Of course the restaurants are also at fault for putting people's personal info into yet another charlatan AI SaaS.