

But that left a small security hole: The link could potentially be guessed with a brute-force attack.

Before, users could share documents, sheets, and other files by making them accessible to everyone who the link was given to. Google Drive is getting a big update next month and it has to do with link security. Here's why link rot is something to worry about - and what you can do to prevent any of your own links from being broken by the new update. The downside? The move creates broken links for a number of older resources that have been hosted online for years. Google Drive is adding an extra resource key to keep its publicly accessible files more secure.
