Is anyone actually surprised by this?

  • grey_maniac@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

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

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      2 days ago

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

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        1 day ago

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