- Google Chrome is testing automatic password changes that would follow data violations
- Google calls it an “IA innovation”, but I am not convinced
- Chrome generates and already stores passwords, and already checks the databases for compromise passwords, and that would place them all … using an algorithm … maybe?
Google Chrome could be about to implement AI tools to identify passwords found in data violations, as well as the possibility of generating and storing stronger alternatives.
It is according to the user of Twitter Leopeva64, who found the functionality in a test version of Chrome Canary (via Ars Technica), by writing: “ Another functionality powered by AI arrives at Chrome, “Change of word of Automated pass “, the description mentions that” when Chrome finds reveals one of your passwords in a data violation, it can offer you to change your password for you when you log into “.
This seems Nifty on paper, although it should be noted that the best password managers such as Bitwarden and Nordpass have already implemented similar features; It is therefore reasonable to suggest that “AI”, whatever this term umbrella here, is not up to what Google calls an “innovation” here.
The chrome password “Innovation AI”
The disclosed password databases like “I have been Pwned” previously completed this function, and Agoogle Chrome already uses this repository to inform users when their passwords have been compromised without resorting to “AI”.
The generation of passwords is also a characteristic common to all password managers under the sun, and the storage of these passwords for easy access (which Google Chrome has also done for a while) is literally the aim of having a password manager; They do what they say about the tin!
It is quite possible that the process of generation of passwords of Chrome is different – and, perhaps, more secure – using a kind of algorithm, but until the safety researchers explore it , the change is equivalent to the chrome offer to modify the password of a user after a violation. It is practical, but I also think – it is not new, and, sincerely, neither of them puts “AI” in the description of the features.
In case you have missed it, Google recently announced that the improved protection mode in the safe navigation settings of its Chrome web browser protects 1 billion users (via 9TO5GOOGLE) against phishing and malware attacks.
