Google Chrome will be able to automatically change your bad passwords

Google is going to fto Chrome’s password manager automatically alteration your password erstwhile it detects 1 that is weak, the institution announced astatine its Google I/O conference.

“When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign-in, Google Password Manager prompts the idiosyncratic with an enactment to hole it automatically,” according to a blog post. “On supported websites, Chrome tin make a beardown replacement and update the password for the idiosyncratic automatically.”

Google is announcing the diagnostic astatine Google I/O truthful that developers tin commencement to hole their websites and apps for the alteration up of erstwhile it launches aboriginal this year.

Chrome’s password manager tin already archer you if you person an unsafe password. “But if we archer you your password is weak, it’s truly annoying to really person to alteration your password,” Parisa Tabriz, VP and GM of Chrome, said successful a briefing up of the event. “And we cognize that if thing is annoying, radical are not going to really bash it. So we spot automatic password alteration arsenic a triumph for safety, arsenic good arsenic usability. Overall, that’s a win-win for users.”

I asked if Chrome mightiness automatically alteration passwords connected a regular ground truthful they’re ne'er outdated, but Tabriz says that Chrome won’t alteration a atrocious oregon compromised password without idiosyncratic consent. “We’re precise overmuch focused connected keeping the idiosyncratic successful power of changing their password.”