How Many Keys Have You Pressed?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 27, 2002 @06:55AM from the and-how-many-have-all-of-us-pressed dept.

teardrop.ca writes "A new project created by Jason Hooper involves the counting and displaying of statistical information regarding the number of keys you have pressed since sign-up to this project. A change from the distributed problem solving projects that have been around for awhile. " Finally a truly frivelous use of distributed computing! It's a bit thin, looks like it could be easily gamed, but damn it'd be funny if the whole world did this (never mind the security and privacy issues). I'm curious how many more times some keys are pressed then others (perhaps this would explain why my spacebars always seem to break on my laptops :/)

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Pardon? by RC514 · 2002-01-27 06:58 · Score: 4, Insightful

I'm supposed to download a program that sits in the tray and records all the keys I press? I mean, to count them, they all have to pass their code, right? And it has network functionality... HELLO? Security?

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Re:My GOD! Can we say "security risk" by Ageless · 2002-01-27 07:10 · Score: 5, Insightful

Here's a wacky idea. Read the pages before you comment. They don't keep track of which keys and how many times. Just how many keys total. The return ONE integer to the server periodically and that is: Number of total keys pressed since last contact.