Keyboard Privacy

Prevents behavioral profiling by randomizing the rate at which characters reach the DOM.

What is Keyboard Privacy?

The 'Keyboard Privacy' extension for Chrome is an innovative tool designed to hinder attempts at behavioral profiling. It accomplishes this through randomizing the speed at which characters are acknowledged in the Document Object Model (DOM). This method effectively conceals your unique typing rhythm, a metric that can potentially be exploited by cyber threats for identification. This plugin is a result of research led by security experts Paul Moore and Per Thorsheim. Its up-to-date version adjusts to various input types, reflecting significant advances in the industry.

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By: Urity Group

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 3,000+

Rating: 4.09 (23)

Version: 2.7 (Last updated: 2019-11-01)

Creation date: 2019-10-30

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
activeTab
storage

Size: 65.06K

Ranking

# 17852 ▼ 158

Other rankings

#3188 in Developer Tools ▼ 1 #1 in keyboard keyword 33 #15 in privacy keyword 50 #239 in password-protected keyword 59 ▼ 20

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Prevents behavioral profiling by randomizing the rate at which characters reach the DOM.

v2.7 Updated 30/10/19: Updated to reflect changes in the industry and ensure every type of input is protected.

v2.5 Updated 20/08/16: Fixed lag caused by numerous textarea inputs on a given page. Increased default "dwell" and "gap" times to 200ms. Tested against BehavioSec 20/08/16 with a 0.02% (RED) result.

Notice: This is a proof-of-concept plugin, following research by two independent security professionals (Paul Moore & Per Thorsheim). See https://paul.reviews/behavioral-profiling-the-password-you-cant-change/ for more details.

User reviews

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Pros

Enhances anonymity in online interactions
Works effectively for different dwell/delay settings
Does not significantly impact online experience
Interesting concept and functionality
Works on both Chrome and Firefox

Cons

Default settings can produce unreliable results
High dwell and gap settings may not seem effective
Conflicts with latency issues on slower connections
Needs more customization options like URL whitelist
Difficult to determine if the plugin is functioning well

Most mentioned

The performance and reliability of the dwell/gap settings
Need for a URL whitelist for improved functionality
Apparent issues with default settings for accuracy
General satisfaction with the extension's concept and performance
Experiences of slowdowns affecting profiling accuracy

Recent reviews

This seems to work @ 300ms on Keytrack but they were able to get high confidence @ 200ms for me. The Experimental port on Mozilla Addons does not work at all for me however, any chance you can finally port this to Firefox, now that they have a decent WebExtension API?