{"id":15461,"date":"2015-07-29T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15461"},"modified":"2015-07-29T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T20:52:26","slug":"chrome-extension-thwarts-user-profiling-based-on-typing-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15461","title":{"rendered":"Chrome extension thwarts user profiling based on typing behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But there is another type of biometrics that can be used to authenticate users &#8211; behavioral biometrics (\u201csomething you do\u201d: speaking, typing, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>The latter &#8211; information about how a user types on a keyboard &#8211; is particularly problematic if he or she wants to maintain their privacy online, as <strong>there are likely many websites that record these patterns<\/strong> and use (or might use them in the future) to identify users with a very high degree of certainty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.net-security.org\/secworld.php?id=18674\">Chrome extension thwarts user profiling based on typing behavior<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, he challenged infosec consultant Paul Moore to come up with a working solution to thwart this type of behavioral profiling.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a Chrome extension called <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/keyboard-privacy\/aoeboeflhhnobfjkafamelopfeojdohk\" target=\"_new\">Keyboard Privacy<\/a>, which prevents profiling of users by the way they type by randomizing the rate at which characters reach the DOM.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But there is another type of biometrics that can be used to authenticate users &#8211; behavioral biometrics (\u201csomething you do\u201d: speaking, typing, etc.). The latter &#8211; information about how a user types on a keyboard &#8211; is particularly problematic if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1376,422,1017,692],"class_list":["post-15461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-biometrics","tag-chrome","tag-plugins","tag-user-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15464,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}