Aug 31 2019 11:17 AM - edited Aug 31 2019 11:20 AM
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:
Aug 31 2019 12:29 PM - edited Aug 31 2019 12:31 PM
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
Aug 31 2019 01:16 PM
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.
Aug 31 2019 01:31 PM
Aug 31 2019 01:49 PM
About zero. Those into cracking password or servers or into warez (software piracy) wouldn't be dense enough to post those passwords publicly unless they were complete amateurs. Even on some of the darknet sites or Tor sites they're not going to openly advertise or distribute them. The password leak detection probably is a good backup option/alternative and still a neat concept however as always people should be careful with their password and data information and how they process or input it on the internet as even securited sites . Unless Google has a secret method of obtaining those leaked passwords that no one else knows about.
Aug 31 2019 02:17 PM
Aug 31 2019 03:02 PM - edited Aug 31 2019 03:11 PM
If I remember corretly "Chromium" is completely open source. What Google put's on top of it for their fork (Chrome) is what or can be closed source (like their auto updater, AAC, H.264, HTML5 to name a few things that's not in Chromium). However Google "contributes" to the develop and forwardness of the Chromium Project which to some can or might be preceived like a puppet master (Google) pulling the puppets strings (Chromium). https://www.chromium.org/Home
Microsoft forking it going forward with their own Chromium spin-off engine that's not affliated or tied with Google is a interesting indeed. I don't know if that ever will or can happen, but it's a fasinating idea and seperates Edge Chromium from Google Chromium like Brave Browser did (they took and used the Chromium engine without Google's involvement or connections as if making Chromium their own).
I have Chromium installed on my Windows 10 computer using a third party updater application (ChromiumUpdathe) that I have set to update every four hours (I was doing every two hours for new build revisions as Chromium is revised/updated up to 40 times a day, but two hours as a bit too much. I might even move up to eight hours even though it's all done hidden without view in the background unless I bring up the screens in Task Manager like in my snap picture below) through a third pardy task schedule (System Scheduler). Mainly to compare it too Edge when new Edge features come out or to see if a bug/crash/whatever happens when I'm using Edge to see if it is also found in Chromium.
Chromium is about identical to Chrome as it gets (or I should say Chrome is identical to Chromium as it gets to almost every detail). At least Edge Chromium is taking their own spin, look, design and enginging on it.
Aug 31 2019 03:24 PM
Aug 31 2019 03:52 PM - edited Aug 31 2019 03:54 PM