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Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style fingerprint (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Mouse movements, typing speed, and typing style can serve as unique identifiers, much like fingerprints. As AI technology advances, it may become increasingly effective at recognizing these patterns, potentially compromising individuals' anonymity. Are there any measures available to protect against this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is typing speed 'obfuscators' available, such as kloak, and it's also available in Whonix: https://github.com/Whonix/kloak

It also obfuscates mouse movements (to a degree). But the Whonix docs say it's not as effective as the typing speed obfuscation kloak provides. There's some more context in their docs if you're interested: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Keystroke_and_Mouse_Deanonymization

As for typing style, I assume you mean stylometry, Whonix also has a page on that here: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Stylometry

For that, the best known mitigation just seems to be to intentionally change up how you write in certain ways, or to "imitate the style of other known authors" (whatever that means). The docs say that "automated methods like machine translation services" aren't a viable mitigation, but I'm not sure if that includes something like using AI to rewrite your sentences.