Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements 149
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."
Re: There goes the neighbourhood. (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm guessing my typing and mouse useage habits change significantly when I get pissed off from being locked out of a system by a security method I can't directly control.
Using the mouse and keyboard as high velocity projectiles, cords streaming out behind them as they fly across the cube farm and impact the managers face that implemented such an idiotic authentication scheme come to mind. Authenticate this bitches!
I've been using this for years (Score:4, Insightful)
My typing has to match a certain pattern to authenticate me.