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Going off of the "show your work" idea, is it possible to analyze the writing style to prove that it was -you- who wrote it? Or is there too much variation? Th
by derwiki 18y ago
Going off of the "show your work" idea, is it possible to analyze the writing style to prove that it was -you- who wrote it? Or is there too much variation? There was a bad episode of Numb3rs where they used someone's "typing profile" to identify someone, so it just got me thinking :)
- lann 18y agoIt's been done before, like the (now defunct?) BioPassword: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1295216.php/BioPassword_Using_keystroke_rhythm_to_authenticate_you http://www.monstersandcritics.com/tech/news/article_1295216.... If high-resolution timestamps for each keystroke aren't too much of a burden it seems like this would be straightforward to implement, given an algorithm like BioPassword's.
- derwiki 18y agoIt looks like BioPassword works best on short, often repeated phrases like login names and passwords. I'm not sure how it would work for larger, unpracticed blocks of text. Etherpad would also need to store information about the timing of when each key is pressed, and based on the demo it doesn't look like they're doing that.