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A method for authorizing an electronic device to perform an action includes detecting interaction data from an interaction between a hardware sensor and an identity-augmented tangible object; wherein data of the first set of interaction data is intrinsically dependent on physical characteristics of the identity-augmented tangible device; computing parametric descriptors from the interaction data; transmitting the parametric descriptors and supplementary data to a remote database system; generating, on the remote database system, identity data from a comparison of parametric descriptors with a known set of parametric descriptors; and authorizing, in response to both of the identity data and the supplementary data, the electronic device to perform a first action.

A method for hardware-tool-based authentication includes detecting a first set of capacitive contact points and a second set of capacitive contact points, computing, from the first set of capacitive contact points, a first set of parametric descriptors, generating a first comparison of the first set of parametric descriptors and a set of known parametric descriptors, generating a second comparison of the first set of capacitive contact points and the second set of capacitive contact points, and performing an event on the electronic device based on analysis of the first and second comparisons.