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I tried NoScript for a bit. Obviously most social networks stopped working, but I liked how NYT became free again (since they track you by a cookie) and obviously HN remained solid. Essentially NoScript just means no online socializing, which I think I might grow to become ok with.
Don't forget that you can whitelist domains, or disable/enable them per session.
What a huge nightmare waiting to happen. Sites already give me shit for changing my location, making me jump through additional hoops because my browser signature changed, refusing to let me purchase something because I don't access them from my home country. The last thing I need is a behavioral profiler that insists it has determined I'm not me and there is nothing I can do to prove it wrong.
True - I was thinking "what happens if I burn my finger while cooking?" It does seem like a solution looking for a problem.
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Or, what if I've had a few beers and my typing is getting sloppier.
If it's trying to prevent you from doing bank transfers while inebriated, I'd say it's working as intended.
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It was true at one stage, according to official acknowledgement form Facebook. There's a discussion somewhere here on Hacker News. Can't find the link right now.
Not quite. Here's a blog post from someone who read the study, and quotes from it: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263165/--Facebook-...
Well, yes you can change your behavior, and no, this is not a good idea. We worked in biometrics like 4 years ago or so. It is trivial to defeat this "security mechanism". We had snake oil people trying to convince us to invest in this(we are a software company), so we made a bet: If we could defeat their marvelous thing on a test they will pay all of our tester team a dinner(and go away and don't bother us again). I…
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These sorts of techniques have widespread applicability. Who needs facial recognition when you have kinematic behavioral analysis? Just imagine the trove of data you could pull from existing information sources if you had unlimited analytical time and computational power? As computing power becomes even cheaper and various analytical techniques become better our "effective privacy" window in our partially-anonymous s…
That's why I'm still entertaining the thought that we may be a "privacy vs. progress of mankind, chose one" type of situation. "These sorts of techniques" are the first scraches on the Great Web of Causality. I don't see a way to prevent it short of banning general-purpose computation. But are we going to deny ourselves all the advances in medicine, disaster relief, energy efficiency, etc. to protect ourselves from s…
And as a society I think we're going to need coping strategies. Trying to protect privacy is only going to delay the eventual meltdown of privacy in our lives.
I think we are making good strides already though. There is less stigma around porn, around homosexuality, around fetishes. Religious tolerance also seems to be increasing. There are still problem points, but I think the trends are in the right direction. I'm happy to be proven wrong on this point though.
Well, yes you can change your behavior, and no, this is not a good idea. We worked in biometrics like 4 years ago or so. It is trivial to defeat this "security mechanism". We had snake oil people trying to convince us to invest in this(we are a software company), so we made a bet: If we could defeat their marvelous thing on a test they will pay all of our tester team a dinner(and go away and don't bother us again). I…
I'm honestly more worried Google or an advertising company would be using this technique than its value as a security mechanism. It'd just be one more chunk of information in the browser fingerprinting process. Changing your natural, habitual behavior is hard . The sad part is, this probably would be pretty effective at catching bots due to the fact they likely are largely repetitive and/or skip the mouse move to sim…
My problem with all of this prfiling/bio-metrics is an extension of the problem with retinal scanning. It isn't a question of if it works or not, but of what information other than identity does it leak.