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Can’t somebody else type the way I do?

baseballbrett
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:18:27 GMT

Tickstream Support
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:29:20 GMT

Yes. There are probably a number of people among the 7¼+ billion on the planet can probably do that — but our solution is a probabilistic one that works at a very high percent of success. Just like the lottery. Somebody wins it, but not you. The chance that somebody can type your password your way in your environment successfully in one or two tries is _extremely_ unlikely – but theoretically possible. This is true of every probabilistic system, even including fingerprints. If you have a cheap reader and somebody’s prints are close to yours, they might get in. With deterministic systems such as a brass key in a lock, you either have the key or you don’t. The problem of course is that you have to have it. With you. Somebody else could have it. But nobody else around you routinely has your behavior – thus the probabilistic approach is far more secure in practice, and when you factor in economics, it’s vastly superior.