This shouldn't be true any more, I just tried it out by grabbing the lh[0-9]* url for the image bytes and that won't open in an incognito browser without a Google Login. Can you share with me how to reproduce this "url copy"? If you want to send it privately just tack gmail.com onto my username.
Or you can file feedback from the photo web page and just tag me in it.
You can revoke a link. Go to the shared album page. (clicking on the link will take you there) Click the options menu item and there is a toggle for link sharing that will revoke the magic url and token.
If I had to ask for a feature, it would be to make this "layouts for the browser" instead of/in addition to "in the browser". Where the output would be html/css to do the masking so you could assign an image to each panel.
And that was half of this post, the blog was as much about using their new product to track this problem as it was about finding the problem. Kudo's to solving a problem you find while making the product.
How not to report about how not to acknowledge a data breach includes dubbing silly music over the other guy speaking to further prove your smugness. While it is always fun to say I told you so, you can still be professional about it.
I find it interesting that you are not having a problem finding Jr SWE roles. I co-run a computer science career community (CS Career Hackers) and I often get a lot of complaints by new grads about the lack of Jr roles.
I wonder which numbers he demonstrated. All straight vertical lines are strongly marked 8 for me and all very 2 looking curves with a straight line at the bottom are clearly "3".