1.) When part of a pulse team, does your stats stand out as far as the frequency in which keys are used... such as could someone look and see that you used say a special character very infrequently and so this special character could be part of a password for access to some sort of account etc?
I think this is a bit paranoid. Even if that information is tracked, it's not going to be useful. Lets' say that $ appears more frequently.
1. This says nothing about it being typed in as a password character.
2. It says nothing about what it is being used in a password for
3. It says nothing about what other characters are in that password.
It's not really going to give you any information that would make an attempt to determine somebody's E-mail password (for example) easier to guess than random chance.
2.) If I wanted to collect these stats only for myself, but not for the world to see, is there an offline mode in which i can look at my collected keystroke stats, but of which it never uploads this info to the web where others can try to figure out information based on frequency of specific keystrokes etc?
Whatpulse has a "work offline" mode which claims to do pretty much exactly that.
here is the kb article on it.
3.) On a Pulse Team, does it pool together the total qty of keystrokes for each individual key of the 104 keys or just total keys pressed such as 109,943 keystrokes today from the team in which its just a single count statistic?
I can't find a way to view any of that information either for a specific user nor a given team. It may only be accessible to the user who pulsed the information, if at all.
I was kind of hesitant to trying out this program because god forbid someone ever had an exploit with it that made it act like a keyboard broadcast, then everything typed would be out for someone to view and piece together in which my biggest concerns are not the content typed which would bore most people , but rather the user names and passwords to important sites etc.
The same logic applies to any proprietary program you use. Or open source, really- I doubt many people exhaustively audit the OSS products they use.
Personally I stopped using it because the whatpulse client was crashing and annoying the piss out of me.
my user is evidently still up there, though. (and somehow even then I have more than Nathan? Wut).
I think that highlights one important thing for software like this- since it serves no critical function (usually), if it causes problems, it will simply be gone. if I have issues with it for example I am far more likely to just remove it and forget about it than fart about trying to workaround say bugs or issues with the software, even if overall the software is reasonably well-made.