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Cloudflare Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human (nerds.xyz)
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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

True, people should search for "keystroke timing attacks". It's more effective if you include things like accelerometer data and audio.

We can see what Cloudflare's code is measuring and reporting to find out if those attacks would be possible.