Users ID'ed through typing, mouse movements

[Cathal Garvey (Phone)]

Or today to deanonymise tor users using javascript.

"J. Tozo" <juniorbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>Very clever, maybe in the future it can be used as second or even third
>authentication factor.
>
>
>On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
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>http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/365221,users-ided-through-typing-mouse-movements.aspx
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>> Users ID'ed through typing, mouse movements
>>
>> By Darren Pauli on Nov 22, 2013 2:16 PM
>>
>> Continuous authentication app created from DARPA research.
>>
>> Researchers have built a continuous authentication platform that can
>> accurately identify users based on their typing patterns.
>>
>> A series of 90 minute typing tests carried out on 2000 people at Iowa
>State
>> University found users could be identified with a half percent margin
>of
>> error based on the way they hit keys.
>>
>> The work has been spun into an application that could continuously
>> authenticate users and lock accounts if another person jumped on the
>> computer
>> resulting in irregularities being detected. (pdf)
>>
>> Uniquely syncopated mouse and keyboard patterns made it possible to
>> identify
>> users, Iowa State University associate professor Morris Chang said.
>>
>> “These pauses between words, searches for unusual characters and
>spellings
>> of
>> unfamiliar words, all have to do with our past experiences, our
>learning
>> experiences,” Chang said. “And so we call them cognitive fingerprints
>which
>> manifest themselves in typing rhythms.”
>>
>> “The system can see if the same person or an imposter is coming in to
>> hijack
>> the computer."
>>
>> The year-long research run together with electrical engineering
>students
>> Terry Fang, Kuan-Hsing Ho and Danny Shih received a half a million
>dollar
>> grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which
>sought to
>> discover if continuous authentication was possible.
>>
>> It was now being extended to capture mouse movements and touch inputs
>from
>> mobile devices with an additional $1.76 million dollars from the
>agency
>> over
>> two years.
>>
>> Copyright © SC Magazine, Australia
>>
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>
>J. Tozo
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