I know this whole thing is sort of old hat, but don't these big corporate music types have any sort of PR looking out for their image? Do I just hang out with too many 'liberal' computer users, or what? Just about everybody who I have even begun to bring this up with thinks that the RIAA are all stupid, and all news items pretty much just make them want to use Napster & co. even more.
Just throwing this out there, but if you got the typing biometric somehow, wouldn't you also be able to find the password easily? I mean, if you use some sort of computer-based strategy to grab the biometric, would it really be that much harder to grab the substance of the keystrokes, as well as the pattern?
I know that credit card companies are trying to do this with those electronic pads you see in electronics stores, the idea is that any merchant can fake themselves as you, but they can't emulate your 'fist' so to speak. It uses some amthematical analysis stuff to see if you are moving the pen the same way with relation to time. My real question, probably completely off topic here, is has anyone read 'Holy Fire', by Bruce Sterling? His descriptions of a gestural passkey system sounds really cool to me, like a sort of pictogram combined with the above technology.
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I know this whole thing is sort of old hat, but don't these big corporate music types have any sort of PR looking out for their image? Do I just hang out with too many 'liberal' computer users, or what? Just about everybody who I have even begun to bring this up with thinks that the RIAA are all stupid, and all news items pretty much just make them want to use Napster & co. even more.
Just throwing this out there, but if you got the typing biometric somehow, wouldn't you also be able to find the password easily? I mean, if you use some sort of computer-based strategy to grab the biometric, would it really be that much harder to grab the substance of the keystrokes, as well as the pattern?
I know that credit card companies are trying to do this with those electronic pads you see in electronics stores, the idea is that any merchant can fake themselves as you, but they can't emulate your 'fist' so to speak. It uses some amthematical analysis stuff to see if you are moving the pen the same way with relation to time. My real question, probably completely off topic here, is has anyone read 'Holy Fire', by Bruce Sterling? His descriptions of a gestural passkey system sounds really cool to me, like a sort of pictogram combined with the above technology.