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We already know that places like Facebook monitor our every keystroke and store them for posterity. Yes, they hang on, also to the text you regretted, backspace

We already know that places like Facebook monitor our every keystroke and store them for posterity. Yes, they hang on, also to the text you regretted, backspaced, and never published. It would seem utterly unprofessional, and potentially detrimental to shareholder interest, for them to not also keep track of timings and typing rhythms. Which makes me wonder how much mood analysis, lie detection, and other psychometrics they really have collected on us all over the years, given the right kinds of algorithms to run the lot through.

jkot 11y ago
Google Doc does that as well
- JoshuaRedmond 11y ago
  That was actually my first thought. There was the story last year about replaying the typing of a Google Doc[1], and as it stores the time between keystrokes it struck me that an attacker could feed document you've written into an extension like this but in reverse, thus typing with exactly the same signature as yourself (at least in respect to the gap time). [1] - http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs/ http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-...
bluefinity 11y ago
That would be... disturbing. Fortunately it's not true, as you can see for yourself with the chrome developer tools.
- creshal 11y ago
  On the other hand, Windows 10 collects these data by default, according to their privacy statements.
- interfixus 11y ago
  It was true at one stage, according to official acknowledgement form Facebook. There's a discussion somewhere here on Hacker News. Can't find the link right now.
  - davidgerard 11y ago
    Not quite. Here's a blog post from someone who read the study, and quotes from it: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263165/--Facebook-tracks-what-I-don-t-even-publish-No-No-it-doesn-t http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263165/--Facebook-...
    - interfixus 11y ago
      I stand corrected. Thanks.
      - davidgerard 11y ago
        I didn't realise either until I read that, fwiw :-)

jkot 11y ago

Google Doc does that as well

JoshuaRedmond 11y ago
That was actually my first thought. There was the story last year about replaying the typing of a Google Doc[1], and as it stores the time between keystrokes it struck me that an attacker could feed document you've written into an extension like this but in reverse, thus typing with exactly the same signature as yourself (at least in respect to the gap time). [1] - http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs/ http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-...

bluefinity 11y ago

That would be... disturbing. Fortunately it's not true, as you can see for yourself with the chrome developer tools.

creshal 11y ago
On the other hand, Windows 10 collects these data by default, according to their privacy statements.
interfixus 11y ago
It was true at one stage, according to official acknowledgement form Facebook. There's a discussion somewhere here on Hacker News. Can't find the link right now.
- davidgerard 11y ago
  Not quite. Here's a blog post from someone who read the study, and quotes from it: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263165/--Facebook-tracks-what-I-don-t-even-publish-No-No-it-doesn-t http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263165/--Facebook-...
  - interfixus 11y ago
    I stand corrected. Thanks.
    - davidgerard 11y ago
      I didn't realise either until I read that, fwiw :-)