Biometric behavioural profiling: Fighting that password you simply can't change

TheWindBringeth · Jul 28, 2015

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/28/behavioural_profiling_defeating_typing_biometrics/

Security researchers have developed a browser extension that supposedly defeats biometrics based on typing patterns, with the exercise designed, in part, to promote greater awareness about the emerging technology and the privacy risk it might pose.

Biometric behavioural profiling allows a site to collect metadata about how a person types, rather than just what they type.
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"You can forget Tor, a VPN and your favourite proxy site," Moore explained. "If you have JavaScript enabled and you've been profiled, there's a very good chance they'll identify you. The problem is ... do you know when you're being profiled?"
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"Most (if not all) behavioural profiling systems check your mouse movements too. However, in my experience, mouse movements do not provide sufficient metadata to accurately identify a user," Moore explained.
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deBoetie · Jul 29, 2015

I think this is a similar report to this thread:-

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thre...ype-can-shatter-anonymity-even-on-tor.378327/

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