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I love how the cybersecurity community consensus on this story is generally that the company deserved getting compromised for being so abusive and intrusive to their workers. www.tomshardware.com/tech-ind... Monitoring keystroke latency is an ADA complaint waiting to happen.

tomshardware.comNorth Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true locationA barely perceptible keystroke delay was the smoking gun that led to the uncovering of a malign imposter.

Alnarra the Druid Cat

@alnarra.com

Myself and some coworkers were trying to figure out what technical solution would actually give amazon keyboard latency, like which combination of technologies could reliably tell you there's input lag somewhere along the chain to even be used as a security metric.

19/12/25, 1:59 pm0 reposts4 likes

sozcog.bsky.social

@sozcog.bsky.social

19 Dec 2025

It's not a Security Metric it's an Efficiency one. I wouldn't doubt that they used this to fire a few people and never said how they quantified their work was slow.

eeffect

@eeffect.bsky.social

19 Dec 2025

that isn’t what the article describes