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Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome

Posted by Soulskill on from the 123456-letmein-hunter2 dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Google is in the process of developing a tool to help users generate strong passwords for the various and sundry Web sites for which they need to register and authenticate. The password-generator is meant to serve as an interim solution for users while Google and other companies continue to work on widespread deployment of the OpenID standard. The tool Google engineers are working on is a fairly simple one. For people who are using the Chrome browser, whenever a site presents them with a field that requires creating a password, Chrome will display a small key icon, letting the users know that they could allow Chrome to generate a password for them."

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  1. What could go wrong? by bonch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's trust an ad-serving company with a track record of intentional privacy violations and a publicly hostile attitude toward privacy rights to generate our passwords for us.

    Ever wondered why Chrome bundled Flash despite dropping H.264 in the name of openness? Advertiser Flash cookies. Chrome is also the last major browser not to support the Do Not Track privacy feature. Google wants access to all your data because you are their product, and advertisers are their users.

    Of course, trolls will probably accuse me of being a shill again, even though the facts are staring everyone in the face. I'll stick with Firefox and the PwdHash addon for secure password generation, thanks.

    1. Re:What could go wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Remember - anyone who is anti-Google is a shill. They are probably being paid with MiKKKro$oft bloody money.

      Hi, my name is Anonymous Coward and I'm the average Slashdot poster.

    2. Re:What could go wrong? by bonch · · Score: -1, Troll

      The Robots Exclusion (robots.txt) is also an honor system. Google is the only holdout on Do Not Track. Every other major browser vendor has adopted. Google also happens to financially benefit from there being no Do Not Track. Makes you think, doesn't it?

    3. Re:What could go wrong? by poetmatt · · Score: -1, Troll

      We know you're a shill dude.

      Why even try to deny it? Why do you even bother first posting.

      You are so fast to shit on google that I sincerely wish upon you cancer.

      Where was an actual violation? Not "we're concerned"? Not "this is not a good thing"? I'm legitimately interested because you have no fucking answer.

  2. Re:xkcd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A word taken randomly out of a dictionary of just 2000 words has about 11 bits of entropy. There's nothing to estimate there. A a simple two step calculation will determine it exactly. (1) Take a base 2 logarithm of 2000. (2) Congratulations, you are done.

    As such, your math sucks, go learn some.