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Ruslan_Taghiyev
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3 years ago
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Dropbox Paper Security Issue

Everybody with the link to my paper file has access to it even if I didn't grant it. How to reproduce: 1. Create a new paper file(do not share it somehow) 2. Copy the URL from the browser 3. Open...
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    Jay
    3 years ago

    Hi Ruslan_Taghiyev, we appreciate the feedback about the sharing of Paper files. Currently, it isn't possible to prevent the default sharing of all your Paper documents. 

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Ruslan_Taghiyev
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Hi Walter, thanks for the fast answer!
So as I understand, by default, all my documents are shared with anyone who has a link?

That's pretty odd to me because in the docs list it says "Shared with": "Only you".

But it's not true, because until I go to the document settings and set "Unshare file" it's shared with anyone even without asking them to sign in, so I can't even know who viewed my file.


I think it's very misleading and from my experience document should be shared only after you enable this sharing manually, not by default, that is why I thought it was a bug. Is there some setting that I can enable so that all my documents will not be shared by default?

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Jay
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3 years ago

Hi Ruslan_Taghiyev, we appreciate the feedback about the sharing of Paper files. Currently, it isn't possible to prevent the default sharing of all your Paper documents. 

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    Ruslan_Taghiyev
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Hi Jay, I'm sorry to hear that, but thank you for the information

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