Hi all,

For the last five years, I've been syndicating my Picasa photo feed on my 
site (http://eschnou.com). I've been doing so using the Picasaweb API, 
fetching the content at this url, as per the API 2.0 documentation:

https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/userID?kind=photo&max-results=10

This morning I woke up and discovered 250+ pictures of random people 
polluting my blog. I immediately thought I was hacked or something like 
that, but the issue sees in fact in the API: it returns random user 
pictures when I fetch my latest pictures. I've tried with both my picasaweb 
userid and my Google+ id, and the effect is the same. Note that when I'm 
logged in it works fine.

I've also noticed that some pictures seems to be private. Which would mean 
that Picasa is currently leaking private pictures of random user. To me it 
looks pretty bad and require an urgent fix.

As an example, have a look at Larry Page photostream... (you have to be 
logged out from Google to witness the weird behaviour):
https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/LarryPage/?kind=photo&max-results=10

^^ easier to view in Firefox which parse and display nicely the rss output.


Best,

Laurent

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