Your typing pattern can be used to identify you

SC Magazine reports that researchers have developed a way to identify users based on the way they type.

A series of 90 minute typing tests carried out on 2000 people at Iowa State University found users could be identified with a half percent margin of error based on the way they hit keys.

The work has been spun into an application that could continuously authenticate users and lock accounts if another person jumped on the computer resulting in irregularities being detected.