This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing::British researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to recognize keystrokes by sound. A smartphone placed near a laptop served as the microphone.
This news has been reported for months in increasingly sensationalist headlines. The short version is that you only have to worry if you are a slow typist in a high-espionage setting in which your system is physically secure so no one could use a physical or digital keylogger attack, but also has a sample of your typing and audio recording access to your computing area.
I remember a cracked.com video several years ago saying the tilt sensors in a smartphone could potentially work as a keylogger by listening to a keyboard on the same desk
Not to mention that this was first done years ago by some agency using sound recordings and good old analysis.
Old recycled news.
Last time: If you know the model and way of typing of the target you have a good likelyhood.
“As a defense measure, the researchers recommend that users use the ten-finger system when typing. In this case, the recognition rate of individual keys dropped significantly.”
Lmao. If you know how to type, then it doesn’t work.
This system also depends on the AI being trained on a particular keyboard. It’s probably not gonna work if you use a non MacBook computer.
Password manager users feeling like untouchable gods after this one.
So when my co workers complain about my custom mechanical keyboard being too loud, I should tell them I’m doing it to improve our cyber security.
So… at what point will paranoid people start screaming at their keyboards while typing, “just in case”?
finally that monstrosity of a password keyboard from Unnecessary Inventions will come in handy
I once recognized the sounds of a girlfriend deleting texts by where her nail was hitting her phone screen in a specific pattern. That is more sad than impressive, I understand. Just saying that this makes sense and is not beyond human capability on its own.
I feel like you could type really slowly to throw it off. How would it know the distance to each key if you set a standard interval between each one?
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