If you want the images protected, then they need to be password protected, and external linking disabled. Password protecting essentially locks the front door, while disabling external linking locks the back door, all windows, and covers the windows.

Mark, just to clarify in case you missed this: photos set to password-protection also showed up publicly when iterating image IDs. So even if you set your old album to password protection and private, its pics were publicly crawlable — only disabling external linking stopped the pics from showing when iterating IDs. Not sure what the current status is as we didn’t test the site for some time now, but if old galleries remain unfixed, all that would still be the case — maybe Don can clarify if that’s the case or not.

At first I was a little concerned about some of the loop holes, although I didn’t see them as critical, I was impressed that you were willing to address it publicly and openly.

You have made us aware of the problems, listened to our concerns, and acted quickly. For that you have earned more of my respect.

But still, I’m happy with this change and how quickly you turned it around. The naming change from Private to Unlisted is probably the most important part so people are more aware of what it means.

I used to have my pictures on another website that would talk about quick fixes when bugs came up but it rarely happened. That’s what drove me away, so keep up the good work!