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If this doesn't get implemented into browsers as a default option or usage of extension doesn't get popular people using this are going to be easy to identify. It's like someone using just normal http and suddenly using https and Tor. You are going to stick out.
Log in from your laptop vs desktop and you're (presumably) going to have to have 1 profile for each.
Now, admitting that everyone will use it in good faith, I'd like the fact that, by itself, it does not add another thing you need to do as a user to authenticate. But, as Paul said in his article, I only see it used as a trigger for other security measures.
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.
It sounds great and much more protective than passwords. You can't copy/imitate behaviors. However, I am wondering if the system still works if you are tired or sick. Your behavior might change in this case and therefore the system would not recognise you.
I think you misunderstood the intention of this feature. The goal is to identify and/or profile users that themselves use just a regular log-in. This can be then used to improve targeted marketing, selling that information to third-parties for example. Note how the article mentions that the gender can be determined after a few keystrokes, even though the user never entered that specific information. This is certainly…
Research got median 88% accuracy testing subsets of 98 males and 35 females.
Note that I got 74% accuracy on that data set by guessing male, male, male, male, male...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would be... disturbing. Fortunately it's not true, as you can see for yourself with the chrome developer tools.
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.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/16/1263165/--Facebook-...
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you misunderstood the intention of this feature. The goal is to identify and/or profile users that themselves use just a regular log-in. This can be then used to improve targeted marketing, selling that information to third-parties for example. Note how the article mentions that the gender can be determined after a few keystrokes, even though the user never entered that specific information. This is certainly…
> Note how the article mentions that the gender can be determined after a few keystrokes, even though the user never entered that specific information. Research got median 88% accuracy testing subsets of 98 males and 35 females. Note that I got 74% accuracy on that data set by guessing male, male, male, male, male...
( You have a very ironic username given the circumstances. )
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.