Feel free to add or remove that security update. So a link that used to look like "" will now look like " resourcekey=0-OsOHHiQFk1QEw6vIyh8v_w." The resource key makes it harder to guess. Google's new link scheme adds a "resourcekey" to the end of any shared Drive links, making them harder to guess. Of course, that doesn't affect links you've shared in the past, and soon Google is going to require your old links to change, which can break them. Google knew about the problem of guessable secret links for a while and changed the way link generation works back in 2017 (presumably for Drive, too?). In 2017, we rolled out an update to the system that generates new YouTube Unlisted links, which included security enhancements that make the links for your Unlisted videos even harder for someone to discover if you haven't shared the link with them. The secret sharing links are really just security through obscurity, and it turns out the links are actually guessable.Īlong with Drive, Google is also changing the way unlisted YouTube links work, and the YouTube support page actually describes this change better than Drive does: The "get link" option works the same way as unlisted YouTube videos-it's not really private but, theoretically, not quite public, either, since the link needs to be publicized somewhere. Drive files have two sharing options: a single-person allow list (where you share a Google Doc with specific Google accounts) and a "get link" option (where anyone with the link can access the file). Google is changing the way content sharing works on Drive. If you visit, you'll also see a message saying, "On September 13, 2021, a security update will be applied to some of your files." You can even see a list of the affected files, which have all gotten an unspecified "security update." So what is this all about? "A security update will be applied to Drive," Google's weird new email reads. A whole bunch of us on the Ars Technica staff got blasted with this last night.
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