[LINK] digital fingerprinting s/w logs machine characteristics

Lea de Groot lealink at viking.org.au
Mon Sep 15 13:30:12 AEST 2008


On 15/09/2008, at 12:23 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> I agree with your scepticism but the idea of "fingerprinting" goes  
> back
> to the days of the Morse key, when an operator could be identified by
> their keying style.  There was some research about 2-3 years ago about
> ppls keying styles on a QWERTY keyboard. (citation???)

I would be very surprised that if I did one with my left hand, one  
with my right and one with both hands, if they all had the same style.

IMHO

Lea
~ Of course I'd have to sit on the hand I wasn't using to keep it off  
the keyboard ;)




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