“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”

Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by judge2020 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:17PM (#27611242)

The thing that makes this fishy is that I also received an email for my Google Workspace organization about link sharing changing for Google Drive for a security update, and the date it initially takes effect is the same day at this YouTube thing, July 23.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032?hl=en

Could something have happened across their entire Zanzibar/ ACL infrastructure?

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by xxpor on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:42PM (#27611485)

I completely thought the email I got for this (for my personal Google app domain) was a phishing attempt. Why couldn't they have included the text in the email rather than some generic sketchy "You have a notification" nonsense?

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by dylan604 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:05PM (#27612214)

If there was a link that said "Click here to view your messages", then yeah, I'd agree it would sound like a phishing attempt.

If it was an email saying, "You have a notification" and you have to manually log in to see it, then there's less chance of you clicking on a phishing attempt. Also, if there's any personal/private/sensitive information, this method makes it unavailable over email.

Just shooting from the hip. It could also just be laziness.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by hackmiester on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:14PM (#27613108)

Yeah, that's why it looked so phishy.

Exact text:

"Dear Google Workspace Administrator,

You have an important notification from Google Operations that requires your attention.

Sincerely, The Google Operations Team"

And then there is a clickable link: "Go to Alert Center"

This is the first time I have EVER heard of the Alert Center. So, I also assumed it was made up.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by bombcar on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:30PM (#27612413)

You’re training users to click a “you have a notification” email that’s not easy to verify is legit.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by lmm on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:40PM (#27612485)

You're training users to not click a link in an email, but rather log in from your homepage.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by bombcar on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:20PM (#27612759)

It has a big “click here” button - at least this email did.

Yea better is to tell them to go login and provide no links.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by jerryoftheyear on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:27PM (#27611885)

Yeah this one was pretty bad, I had the same reaction.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by tech234a on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:35PM (#27611427)

YouTube mentions the Drive change on their blog post[1], and Drive mentions the YouTube change on theirs[2].

[1]: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-youtube-unlisted...

[2]: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/06/drive-file-l...

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by llacb47 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:22PM (#27611292)

Could you explain what that is?

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by jzelinskie on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:40PM (#27611469)

The permissions service at Google. For more details see: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by chx on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:30PM (#27611368)

https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by QuercusMax on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:31PM (#27611922)

Seems highly unlikely to me (a Google engineer who works on systems that use Zanzibar / Cloud IAM) that this is a result of anything other than a change in policy.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by resoluteteeth on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:46PM (#27613291)

This person seems to believe it's a security issue with video ids, but maybe that's not related to Zanzibar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27611436

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by judge2020 on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:24PM (#27667529)

I still find it odd why the Google Drive change would be related to this, but maybe they're not related besides that date being 'migration day'.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by londons_explore on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:05PM (#27619610)

This is true. There are rumours the key has leaked swirling.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:40PM (#27612487)

Out of curiosity, could you blindly speculate about something that could happen to this service that would require these changes to be made in drive/youtube?

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by tenerifevisitor on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:32PM (#27611392)

What is Zanzibar?

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by phuff on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:02PM (#27611667)

I found this link: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by chairmanwow1 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:14PM (#27612293)

I really do love this paper.

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