Another bad idea from Google: Automated AI password changes
It's time again to note the risks in Google's aggressive automated
password recommendation systems -- and of course this new "automated"
password change system. One of the problems is the high number of
"false positives" related to local environments (e.g., systems and
servers that do not have Internet access) where the fact that a
password has been used somewhere by someone else is not a relevant
security concern. These false positives are at best annoying and at
worst undermine any desire to pay attention to more significant Google
warnings.
But a bigger problem is that reliance on Google's password autofill
system is incredibly risky -- especially when Google urges you to let
it create a new password for you and suggests there's no need for you
to record it yourself. This works just dandy UNTIL you get locked out
of your Google account due to Google's atrocious account recovery
failures, and you not only get locked out of all your data but you
lose access to the passwords for every other site (if you followed
Google's suggestions to not write them down).
As usual, this double whammy most impacts the same categories of
nontechical users who are usually given the shaft by Google systems,
because Google just doesn't care about those users. Period.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/google-chrome-may-soon-use-ai-to-detect-leaked-passwords-and-replace-them/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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