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This is neat. My roommate in grad school developed a somewhat related idea but for identifying someone's "typing cadence". He used it for an additional securi
by tedmiston 10y ago
This is neat.
My roommate in grad school developed a somewhat related idea but for identifying someone's "typing cadence". He used it for an additional security factor in the way that a person types their passwords in a browser.
- walterbell 10y agoI read an article about search engines using autocomplete keystroke timing for user fingerprinting, but can't find it at the moment. Wikipedia has a few references, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
- dogma1138 10y agoThere are quite a few solutions out there that use bioinformatics to develop a signature of the user. Google has one, a few banks use it to identify potential fraud cases appearntly even simple things about how you navigate a webpage can produce a fairly unique fingerprint even across different devices.