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The privacy risk of behavioral profiling
- rdl 11y agoThe Register has an article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/28/behavioural_profiling_defeating_typing_biometrics/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/28/behavioural_profilin...
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoPick a person, any person. Put together all of the data and metadata that can be legally acquired. Strip out the context and put it in front of a judge. Get a search warrant. Hoover up everything else. With enough information, anybody can be demonized. Can the presumption of innocence even exist in the age of information?
- hga 11y agoNot a new concept, e.g. this common but disputed quote of Cardinal Richelieu: Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
- steventhedev 11y agoA few things: keystrokes is only part of the data collection. I wouldn't be surprised if they're also looking at mouse movement, or the actual keystroke pattern (backspaces and such). But it does raise an interesting idea: build a fuzzer that you can use to change "profiles". Rather than making yourself mechanical, put on a different face. Also, I'd like to see a concept website that used keystroke data to authenticate a user instead of a password. Basically, give them a "passphrase" or somesuch that is presented in cleartext with the instructions: "type this phrase".
- thorsheim 11y agoSome use mouse movements, others do not. The behaviosec used it, but didn't influence anything in the end.