Sign Your Name Online With A Mouse

icke writes "Soon, the way you use your mouse could help prove who you are. According to a BBC News article, scientists have found a way for people to sign their name online using a mouse instead of a pen. The technology, based on the research from Queen Mary College, University of London by Peter McOwan, 'uses a neural network to pick out the unique features of the way that someone uses a mouse.'"

Comments

How hard do you have to squeeze

[egg troll]

To get ink from a mouse? Yeesh.

Re:How hard do you have to squeeze

[Anonymous Coward]

I keep trying to write with a mouse, but the ink seems to keep coming out in little pellets... maybe it's time to replace the mouse balls?

Re:How hard do you have to squeeze

[EmbeddedJanitor]

I tried and the fscking thing bit me!

Re:How hard do you have to squeeze

[Warped-Reality]

It's just like getting baby oil from a baby..

Warning:

[Exiler]

Vertical motions detected. Credit authorization failed.

Thank you for shopping at Victoria Secret.

How About...

[Suhas]

...I know all the kbd shortcuts and rarely use my mouse....err... ...You Insensitive CLOD!

Great

[Crashmarik]

Just what I need. Computers to tell me I'm not me when I sign my name. At least with people I could make a convincing argument.

dudes, they're lying

[bongobongo]

it's just ms paint with a web front end and a bunch of offshore labourers visually verifying each one !!!! ! !!

it's 99% accurate because of carelessness and post-lunchbreak bloat factor

Re:This would be easy to fake

[localghost]

And pens won't work either, because you can easily photocopy a signature and trace over it. Oh well, back to the drawing board...

Re:Your John Handcock is not secure

[heli0]

"Your John Handcock"

Honest mistake, or Freudian slip?

Bullshit alert

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

+5, uses neural network technology
+2, academic researcher
+2, academic researcher studying biologically inspired hardware and software
+1, biometrics
+1, researcher teaches multimedia
+2, researcher teaches computers in society
+2, no history of employment in real world
-1, degree in physics
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+14, almost certainly bullshit

Now I'm Confused

[the_mad_poster]

Christ... first thing I did when I read that was stop moving my mouse.. then the thought crossed my mind that by doing that, I was just setting up a new signature, so I started moving the mouse. Then, I started to think that maybe I was moving the mouse in my own special way, so I tried to make something up.

Then it occurred to me that I'm using lynx.

Re:Hmm..

[Greventls]

Yeah. I agree with you. I sometimes alter the spelling of my name when I'm signing and no one says a damn thing. It is pretty noticable if my name is mispelled, since it is very common. Maybe the software will act like the lazy bank tellers and cashiers and just not care.

All I can picture is...

[bob670]

my current PHB who can't wait for anything to open or appear on the screen and just clicks/types/mouses incessantly, no matter how large the program or file. I just have a visual of all his email and Words files plastered in his signature.

Mouse logger

[Anonymous Coward]

Hhmmm... At last, I have a use for my mouse logger trojan!

Re:This would be easy to fake

[E_elven]

Because we all know that *actual* signatures cannot be forged and the clerks at stores are really hawk-eyed when it comes to making sure the customer is who they say they are.

John Handcock

[shigelojoe]

He was probably talking about the pornstar. And if there isn't a pornstar named John Handcock, there damn well needs to be one.

A lack of John Handcock is un-American(TM), dammit.

A better (and fannier) one

[vvdd2]

There is a much fannier one (java required). Try it and you will find a lot about yourself

http://www.sitebits.com/2000/SIG/

It is available since 2000.

Re:Your John Handcock is not secure

[s-orbital]

A freudian slip is where you say one thing, and mean your mother.