Is anyone actually surprised by this?

  • grey_maniac@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    I’m confused. Isn’t “collecting keystroke data” just an alarmist way to describe text entry?

    • noisefree@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Maybe. They could also be doing things like paying attention to input cadence and typos/pre-send typo corrections to use as part of a fingerprint associated with the identifying information a user gives them when creating an account so that they can then attempt to detect the user elsewhere on the web whether they are using an identifying account or not.

    • uis@lemm.ee
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      23 days ago

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

      • kekmacska@lemmy.zip
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        21 days ago

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

        • uis@lemm.ee
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          21 days ago

          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
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            20 days ago

            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
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              20 days ago

              with keyboard sounds

              Ok, I see you are intentionally going in circles.