- Google Chrome Testering Automatic password changes that will follow data violations
- Google calls this an ‘AI -Innovation’ but I’m not convinced
- Chrome already generates and stores passwords plus controls databases for compromise passwords, and this would put together them all … using an algorithm … maybe?
Google Chrome could be implementing AI tools to identify passwords found in data violations, as well as being able to generate and store stronger alternatives.
According to Twitter-User Leopeva64, it is the feature of a Chrome Canary Test Build (via ARS Technica), Writing, ‘Another AI-Driven feature comes to Chrom to you when you log in ‘.
It sounds NIFTY on paper, although it is worth noting that the best password managers such as Bitwardhen and Nordpass have implemented similar features before; So it’s reasonable to suggest that ‘AI’, no matter what the umbrella period means here, actually lives up to what Google calls an ‘innovation’ here.
Chrome’s password ‘AI Innovation’
Leaked password databases like ‘I have been pwned’ have previously met this feature, and Agoogle Chrome is already using this depot to inform users when their passwords have been compromised without resorting to ‘AI’.
Generation of password is also a feature that is common to essentially any password administrator under the sun, and storing these passwords for easy access (as Google Chrome has also done for some time) is literally the point of having a password administrator; They do what they say on tin!
It is completely possible that Chrome’s process of generating passwords is different – and perhaps more secure – using a kind of algorithm, but until security researchers explore this, the change to Chrome offering to change a user’s password is immediately after a violation. It’s convenient, but I think too – this is nothing new, and it is not true to put ‘AI’ in the function description.
In case you missed it, Google recently announced that the improved protection mode in its Chrome Web Browser’s Safe Browsing settings protects 1 billion users (via 9to5Google) against phishing and malware attacks.
