On: I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)

[malka]

>Everyone I’ve talked to about this has been surprised, and maybe a little unnerved, to discover that whenever they share a Google Doc with someone, they’re also sharing an extremely detailed record of them typing the thing.)

No shit. I'm stopping to share anything on Google docs now. Who knows what secrets are here somewhere ?

[momokoko → malka]

I always make a copy and then share that when I’m ready. This is the only method I’m aware of to remove history.

[gundmc → momokoko]

I'm pretty sure only editors can see document history as well. If you share as view or comment the history is not visible.

[Xorlev → gundmc]

Correct, only editors can see edit history. Making a copy also takes a snapshot of the document without history.

[closeparen → malka]

We've just made it a first class part of our workflow. Colleague tells me he's made a round of edits; I check the history to see what they are. Promotion committees also use edit history to validate whether "coauthors" really are.

[oauea → malka]

Indeed. It's definitely happened to me before that I accidentally pasted, then removed, some credentials from a Google doc.

Usually the expectation is that as long as you don't hit "send" it's fine, but this is clearly not the case here.