@rrhoover so true! If keyloggers weren't bad enough, imagine if they were intelligent enough to track your typing patterns?!?

@rrhoover apps/sites should tell users when they record typing patterns, and if you've seen the demos, we explicitly add a typingdna logo and a visual typing pattern both in the demos and the authenticator. Like all biometric technologies out there, it has the potential for assisting surveillance, but for that all websites have to agree to track people for a higher entity... The promise, however, is to keep attackers out, keep thieves out of our bank accounts, email accounts, apps. The promise is to keep what's yours, well yours. We do this in real world too. People around you don't ask you for a password everytime you see you right? They look at you, or hear your voice, and conclude that you're yourself. Websites and apps should not lack similar abilities if we want to be 100% safe.

@rrhoover Its actually super awesome. This is a much more secure way of authenticating / having extra authentication layer thats seamless. As we are moving into the world of ambient biometrics things like TypingDNA will become more pervasive - we will be recognized by our Face, Voice, Fingerprints, Typing Patterns, etc.

@rrhoover yes indeed a creepy app for those who want to be invisible from web. Your keystrokes monitored its someone watching 👀 creeeepy

@itsnblackburn I'm thinking that this is something that probably means that you won't need password managers anymore. Common passwords won't be that insecure as you have the 2nd factor being your "typing DNA".

@itsnblackburn @swiftpolar passwords have become increasingly hard to remember and unusable. The point of a secret type of factor in authentication is to rely on something you know. We should be able to use simpler passwords, or just even similar passwords for multiple sites, things people use anyway.

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@swiftpolar @itsnblackburn I agree, and I don't really subscribe to very simple passwords, but rather to combined factors of authentications: 2 weaker factors combined are much stronger then 1 single stronger factor.

@raulpopa don’t know how accurate is your pattern recognition, but I’m pretty sure I can type simple passwords such as “1234” or “qwerty”, the exact same way the user I’m trying to attack

@pixeoapp it's not just TypingDNA, I think the whole future is freaky. AI is improving everything and authentication is just one of the domains it touches. I agree with the real value that you see.

@raulpopa All I know is that I was promised a damned hoverboard, and a proper one, not one of those damned fire catching death traps you stand on the wrong way.

@pixeoapp :)) we'll have to see about that

@adam_kelly it can happen this is not bulletproof for sure. But then again this it's just a factor of authentication, TypingDNA Authenticator allows you to reset your typing pattern with your email. Other services that use TypingDNA API can fall back on 2FA SMS or other factors. Anyway, a more general truth is that it's still more likely to forget your password and that doesn't prevent apps from using passwords as the main authentication factor. The key is UX and convenience.

@kenneth_brogger_luplau there are a few patents 20+ years old that were covering the main things about how to record typing patterns for example, those are public domain now. Newer patents cover particular design approaches (like the one IBM may have) but no general approach. Also, one thing in particular is that TypingDNA approach is open sourced (released as Apache license): anyone can use our recorder class to record typing patterns the way we do. However, the main thing about what we do at TypingDNA sits on the back end, the AI based matching engine.

@eugenoprea you still have to type but you can activate 2FA in Lastpass too and use TypingDNA Authenticator to unlock it.