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title: "Is Google Gears a Disaster Waiting to Happen?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/4/is-google-gears-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/4/is-google-gears-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.html"
published: "2007-06-04T06:50:36"
updated: "2007-06-04T06:50:36"
tags: ["General Software Devel..."]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Google Came out with Google Gears , a set of APIS you can use from JavaScript to persist your web app's Data into a local database (SQLite). The idea is awesome, but I'm worried, and I'm not sure if I'm missing…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Is Google Gears a Disaster Waiting to Happen?

By Roy Osherove June 4, 2007 In [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 4, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

Google Came out [with Google Gears](http://gears.google.com/), a set of APIS you can use from JavaScript to persist your web app's Data into a local database (SQLite). The idea is awesome, but I'm worried, and I'm not sure if I'm missing something here:

- You'll now have complex application logic and persistence logic in **full JavaScript** syntax. Feels like we're lookin at a big maintenance nightmare
- How secure can your web app really be if all data access is open for anyone with "view source"?

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