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Creepy. Why on Earth would you build something like this? Amazing how people in tech are so flippant about building tools that are almost exclusively useful f
by ARandomerDude 7y ago
Creepy. Why on Earth would you build something like this?
Amazing how people in tech are so flippant about building tools that are almost exclusively useful for tyrants.
- wsgreen 7y agoPretty sure bank apps do this for fraud prevention. Preventing criminals from stealing your money is pretty altruistic
- loeg 7y agoI don't think I've ever had to type a sentence into a bank app, much less 30-40.
- rococode 7y agoYou've probably typed a username or password hundreds of times though, or at least a fair portion of their userbase has. "This user normally types their password in 3 seconds but today they did it in 0.2 seconds" is a reasonable way to raise a red (or at least yellow) flag.
- loeg 7y agoI pretty much exclusively use 1pass, so there's not much information there on the bank fill side of things.
- zxcvbn4038 7y agoNo, banks won’t do this, most banks still struggle with basics like storing passwords securely.
- alphagrep12345 7y agoCoursera uses this to make sure exams are given by the same person who registers for the course.
- nothal 7y agoI really don't think that this is a fair appraisal of this. It's a really novel look into how our habits identify us and the creation of it, in itself, doesn't reflect any mal-intent. If you're really so disheartened by the potential use-cases of typing ID like this, you are now aware of it in the first place! You could set out to build a simple tool that randomly adds noise to your keyboard IO and effectively stops this from working. Past that, this is something that others have almost certainly already figured out (be it big tech or government entities) but, even if they hadn't, creation like this is cannot be considered a wrongful act because it's impossible to know the long-term effects of anything before it exists.
- BurningFrog 7y agoWhy would you think "people in tech" are some homogenous group to generalize about?
- booleandilemma 7y agoUnfortunately, tyrants often pay well.
- junon 7y ago1) You should definitely research who Fedor Indutny is. 2) If you think companies aren't already doing this, you're lying to yourself. 3) This is a harmless experiment made to spotlight how simple it is to identify someone just by their typing. This could be used in a multitude of ways. 4) Stop generalizing "people in tech", and stop assuming everyone builds stuff for no reason. This is a deliberate experiment, made on purpose, for a very good reason.