- Google Chrome is testing automatic password changes that data violations would follow
- Google is calling this an ‘innovation of AI’, but I am not convinced
- Chrome already generates and stores passwords, in addition to verifying the commitment databases, and this would unite 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 to generate and store stronger alternatives.
That is according to the Twitter Leopeva64 user, who found the feature in a compilation of the Canarian Chrome test (through Ars Technica), writing: ‘Another characteristic of AI is arriving in Chrome, “automated password change” , the description mentions that “when Chrome finds one of his passwords in a data violation, he can offer to change his password for you when I log in. ‘
That sounds ingenious on paper, although it is worth noting that the best password administrators such as Bitwarden and Nordpass have implemented similar characteristics before; Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that ‘ai’, whatever this general term means here, is not up to what Google is calling an ‘innovation’ here.
The Chrome ‘Innovation password of AI’
The databases of filtered passwords such as ‘Have I Bened’ have previously fulfilled this function, and Agogle Chrome already uses this repository to inform users when their passwords have committed without resorting to ‘ai’.
The generation of passwords is also a common feature for essentially all password administrators under the sun, and store these passwords to facilitate access (which Google Chrome has also done for some time) is literally the point of having a password administrator; They do what they say in the can!
It is completely possible that the Chrome process of generating passwords is different, and perhaps, safer, using some type of algorithm, but until security researchers explore this, the change is equivalent to Chrome’s offer to change the password of a user immediately after a violation. It is convenient, but I am also thinking: this is nothing new and, honestly, neither is putting ‘ai’ in the description of the function.
In case it has been lost, Google recently announced that the improved protection mode in the safe navigation configuration of its Chrome web browser is protecting one billion users (through 9to5google) from phishing and malware attacks.
