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Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements

Posted by Soulskill on from the this-guy-always-whacks-his-space-bar-really-hard dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Users can be identified with a half percent margin of error based on the way they type. The research work has been spun into an application that could continuously authenticate users (PDF), rather than just relying on passwords, and could lock accounts if another person jumped on the computer. Researchers are now integrating mouse movements and clicks, and mobile touch patterns into the work."

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  1. News.. by Nimatek · · Score: 5, Informative

    How exactly is that new? https://www.keytrac.net/ http://www.intensityanalytics.com/ http://www.idcontrol.com/keystrokeid And there is like half a dozen more.

  2. Re:I've heard this before by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ha!

    And some others:

    2000: Identification By Typing
    2007: Typing Patterns for Authentication
    2008: Identify and Verify Users Based on How They Type
    2011: Verifying Passwords By the Way They're Typed
    2013: RSA: An Unusual Approach to User Authentication: Behavorial Biometrics