I am developing an app on unity3d and using firebase realtime database for user info and stats. The users need to authorize (via google) to read/write data to database inside the app. Since, users do not know the database address, which is embedded inside the app, do I still have security problem? If yes, what should I do? I do not want any user to change their own stats :)
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Yes you still might have a security problem. Security by obscurity is not true security. It is still possible for people to snoop network traffic away from your app to get the address of the database. The firebase way of solving this is via Database Rules configured in the console/CLI. Making it so users cannot change their own stats will depend on how your app is structured and who IS allowed to change them. In any case, this can be expressed in Rules as well.
Just you have accessibility to database and its rules. Users just can read and write and change their data and they can't change another one's data.
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