June 13, 2000
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The frothing crowd dedicated to protecting digitized intellectual property just took another step towards the stupid bus. A couple of companies are pitching keystroke recognition as a means to identify individual users and potentially verifying ownership of digital content and software installed or executed on their machines.
“It’s very difficult for any of these companies to articulate this in a way that makes it palatable to consumers. This has to be transparent and seamless to get over the first consumer hurdle.”
Given that you can’t even run a Microsoft Office application or a Java-enabled browser in the background without the keystroke response being dramatically affected, there is no way any type of input-based, on-the-fly biometric analysis and recognition is going to be “transparent”.
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