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Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type
LinucksGirl writes to share an IBM DeveloperWorks article that shows how to support user verification through keystroke-dynamics processing by modifying the GNOME Display Manager (GDM). You can create and store a one-way encrypted hash of your keystroke patterns when entering your user name. The article shows how to add code to GDM to read current keystroke patterns and permit a user to log in when the characteristics are a match. An interesting idea to be sure but I know I certainly am not that consistent when I type, so I'm skeptical of how well this may work.
How am I supposed to log in after a few too many? Wait, maybe thats not an issue after all, maybe its a feature.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
I don't know HOW to type!!
I got a catholic block.
Dang, I still find it hard to press the C-T-R-L-A-L-T-D-E-L keys hard to press at the same time before entering my password on windows.
How on God's green earth am I going to write down my keystroke patterns on a sticky note on my monitor???
Freedom isn't free; its price is the well-being of others.
Please, drunk dialing should be a civil infraction penalized in this manner
for each # called...
1st offense:
A stern warning.
2nd offense:
$250 restitution to the victim, 1 months probation
3rd offense:
Death.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
Biometric authentication is a far, far stupider idea than this is. Yes, not being able to log in when you're drunk is bad, but having to exchange your finger and your eyeball for a new one because someone posted a high-resolution photo of them online is much, much worse.
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This works great until you lose a finger, thumb, hand, etc in that freak accident. Talk about adding insult to injury -- your own computer won't even accept you with your newfound handicap!
Christmas is the opposite of theft. See?
From bash.org
HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M 13 BY LOOKING AT WHAT I'M WRITEING??????????????????????
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Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
...and when this hashing algorithm was implemented in Javascript, it meant the end for anonymous cowards...
Since presumably this would also be a kind of keyboard sobriety test.
I'll settle for getting GDM to distinguish between a my typing and my cat's.
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