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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not exactly. Timing between key presses can be used to identify people.

[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am literally so paranoid I regularly vary my keysteoke rhythms and explore polyrhytmic techniques to create variations. Not even joking.

[–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lol no. only the sounds of the keys can identify the keyboard's model

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The goal is not to identify keyboard model. The goal is to identify person. And people tend to have something called habbits.

[–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the chance of this is almost zero. if you are a dangerous cybercriminal, they will track your device down by a networking solution, wait until you leave it unattended and install a hardware-based spy device and capture evidence. No fbi agent will fuck around with keyboard sounds or movie bs like that

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

with keyboard sounds

Ok, I see you are intentionally going in circles.