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by btcprint 3645 days ago
There was an article recently about obd2 scanners recording information such as throttle application, brake pressure, etc and after recording information for 15 minutes could determine with X% accuracy who was driving and after 60 minutes of data, could fingerprint who was driving with 97 (or maybe it was 100%?) Accuracy.

Pretty interesting stuff

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This is neat.

My roommate in grad school developed a somewhat related idea but for identifying someone's "typing cadence". He used it for an additional security factor in the way that a person types their passwords in a browser.

I read an article about search engines using autocomplete keystroke timing for user fingerprinting, but can't find it at the moment. Wikipedia has a few references, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
There are quite a few solutions out there that use bioinformatics to develop a signature of the user.

Google has one, a few banks use it to identify potential fraud cases appearntly even simple things about how you navigate a webpage can produce a fairly unique fingerprint even across different devices.

Neat stuff, but I think that particular study had a pretty small sample size (~100). It would work from telling mom from mom or junior, but not so well at picking the zip car driver from a pool of all zip car drivers.