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Picasa Fixes Privacy Vulnerability  (View post)

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, October 7, 2006
17 years ago4,419 views

<< after being criticized for making unlisted albums >>
the 'criticized' link leads to http://blogoscoped.com.
im sure you didnt mean this link.. right Philipp?

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

This bug is fixed since, at least, a month ago. Because I could'nt had access to my files if I wasn't logged in, although I was sure of the URL ;)

http://picasaweb.google.com/tomhtml/UntitledAlbum

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Whoops – link fixed, thanks David!

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

No problem Philipp ;)

Kool [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

Good to Spot Google finally taking d much awaited action....!

picasauser [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

I do not like this security-feature at all. I could have made up urls that are too long to rememer and to type in myself (to make them private, what would better be done with password protection) and i really liked the unlisted albums, because it was easy to share the url via phone etc.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Privacy comes at a price, but ask yourself what's worse: having to spend 10 more seconds to pass on a URL over the phone, or realizing that the whole world is looking at your half-naked pictures you thought were unreachable to them? But yeah, the option to have nice URLs *and* a real password-protection + invite system for friends would've solved this too, maybe even better... could still be made as additional option.

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