Verifying a User By Following the Movements of Their Mouse

Harperdog writes "Tom Jacobs has a very cool little story about an Israeli research team introducing a novel way of verifying a computer is being operated by its rightful user. Its method, described in the journal Information Sciences, 'continuously verifies users according to characteristics of their interaction with the mouse.'"

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Re:Not persistent enough.

[Xtense]

The article specifically mentions "continuous verification", implying a workplace/business environment, where motions of the pointer are probably repetitive enough for the software to pick up on. This, of course, also implies not having to switch mouses every so often, but every time there IS a global company-wide switch of hardware, the ID software will go completely bananas, locking out every worker there. Without a method of purging already generated schemes for every user, this is just begging for a catastrophical company lockdown.