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It's a shame that before releasing that to the public noone gathered few terabytes of such data and put it up on torrents.

We might learn a lot about how people use computers and UIs with such data.

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Right, and the affected people's right to privacy be damned...

Yes. But I think the data would be also useful if you don't include IP address. This should limit the damage to acceptable levels.

Would you be happy publishing your keystrokes if your IP address was removed?

If that were only the keystrokes of alt ctrl shift then I wouldn't mind.

s-c-o-t-t-y-7-9-<tab>-p-a-s-s-w-o-r-d

this looks like keyboard input not mouse input?

if they are using a virtual keyboard then those are one in the same (besides maybe the tab)

Ignoring the keypresses (to prevent inadvertent credential sharing), and just doing mouseclick heatmaps while anonymizing the IPs involved and sites visited would be interesting (you'd want to keep screen size/browser.version data, for an understanding of what the heatmaps represent).

Would provide lots of info without compromising much details.

You'd get only mouse move events, no clicks.

How would it provide lots of info? Without any data on which program they were interacting with at the time, I'd have thought data on the mouse movements would be fairly useless?

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