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Chromium Testing "Password Leak Detection" (Not In Edge Yet)
Chromium and Chrome Canary are experimenting with Password Leak Detection. Interesting to see if Edge adds that in at some point.
Snipe comparing Chromium (Not Chrome) 78.0.3900.0 to Edge Canary 78.0.262.0:
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- It was really cool what Brave did. They have an android app too.
Yeah, I have it set to auto update Chromium every four hours, but maybe I'll move it up too 8 or 12 hours to grab whatever revised build of that say's build is up at the time.
Chromioum itself revises it's day build anywhere from 20 minutes to to an hour after the last revision build or about up to 40 times day (could be less or more of course). I've seen revisions come out 10 minutes apart while other times two hours a part.
So Chromium browser in the chrome://version will say something like 78.3900.0 followed by "692367" with 692367 being the latest revision. I think (I could be wrong, I heard/read this) that Google takes the best and most stable of that days Chromium "revisions" of that day's build, and to promotes it to Chrome Canary each night via their auto converter (adding all the Google Chrome stuff and logo which is instantanious) and upload bot. Right now Google Chrome Canary is 78.3899.0 while Chromium is 78.0.3900.0 and at a designated time later at night or tomorrow morning Google will take the most stable of the revised Chromium builds of 78.3900.0 and "promote it" to Chrome Canary tomorrow while Chromium moves too 78.3901.0 that same day and starts all the revisions again by their developers.
Chromium site will tell you the current revised build and time since that revised version was uploaded (and also the link to download it) here:
https://download-chromium.appspot.com How it works:
Once enabled, Google Chrome will then show you if the password you enter into a website matches information Google has on public data breaches. This feature will only be available for users who are signed into their Google account, but it can help millions of people. If Google Chrome detects the user entering a compromised password, they will be shown a pop-up prompt that tells the user this password has been found in the public list of unsafe passwords.
The Password Leak Detection feature that was added to Chrome 78 Canary is headed to Android as well.
This website does the same thing:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
It's an interesting feature. Might be an eventual good one for Edge too (except through Microsoft syn/accounts instead of Googles accounts).
I checked Chrome Canary app on Android and it's not in the flags yet. That too will be intersting to see.
- I doubt its effectiveness though. what are the chances that someone who hacks a server post those passwords in public?
or even when they put it up for sale on torrent or dark web, Google goes and buys a copy from the hacker and then integrate it into their system?
