If you truly wish to know a man, follow the movements of his mouse

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Harperdog

on Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:12PM

Harperdog writes "Tom Jacobs has a very cool little story about an Israeli research team introducing a novel way of verifying a computer is being operated by its rightful user. Its method, described in the journal Information Sciences, “continuously verifies users according to characteristics of their interaction with the mouse.” Cool stuff"
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This is called Cognitive Footprint Analysis (Score:2)

by EnergyScholar (801915) writes:

There's a discussion about it on Bruce Schneier's blog [schneier.com]

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My pants just went to high school in the Carlsbad Caverns!!!

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If you truly wish to know a man, follow the movements of his mouse

This is called Cognitive Footprint Analysis (Score:2)