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Re: (Ab)use of Javascript; was Re: Web Services Increasingly Under

dpmartin@alum.mit.edu
9 Jul 2006 06:28:03 -0700

In the future, voice services which convert voice to text and vice
versa will become more common. If the voice can be recognized then
identity can be established.

Spy programs now exist that can determine who is typing by the pattern
and cadence of their keying. Two versions; one which listens to the
sound in the room and the other which is internal to the computer and
records the arrival of keystrokes electronically. The one which
listens only to the sound in the room can be trained to distinguished
which keys are being typed. Blind people can learn this skill as
well, much as a deaf person can learn lip-reading.

redefined wrote:

> This is true, but it's no different than the cookies that are currently
> stored/tracked on these computers.

> To stretch my idea even further, if there is a will there is a
> way. All they have to do is create a simple little program that will
> change the system's IP address every time a new user logs on. Say a
> window will prompt for the login/password, and the login will be the
> IP. This will of course wreak havoc on the network structure, but with
> the advance of wireless networks and entire cities getting ready to go
> wifi, this is looking more and more like when cell phones first
> appeared on the market. I'm sure they can come up with routers that
> will send traffic from each IP to its appropriate router over wifi.

> Again, not saying that it's going to happen. Just letting my
> imagination work here.

> Julian Thomas wrote:

>>> If the government really wants to track people's online usage
>>> they'll have to give everyone the option to keep the same IP
>>> throughout their lifetime, much like they allow people to keep their
>>> phone numbers now. That way each IP address will have a name
>>> attached to it.

>> Hardly. Consider local network environments and shared usage computers,
>> where many users share the same IP.

>> Julian Thomas: http://jt-mj.net
>> In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!
>> Warpstock X - October 12-15 2006; Windsor, Ont. I'll be there - will you?

>> Finagle's First Law:
>> If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

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