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This still doesn't sound like a straight forward answer. I think there is a justifiable cause for trying to minimize the role of the server but controlling the operating environment of the data itself is the essence of modern web security.

There would need to be some sort of public key system for authentication, but in the end you are still compromising your data if the client gets hacked. There would have to be a database control layer for the final say, and thats called a server.




Not sure if Mongo has this feature, but in many classic SQL databases, per-user views can be created which act like tables, but are actually "the user's view into that table".

This would mean creating database user accounts on the fly for people, but it would resolve this problem (as long as the views are secure).




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