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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy::A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.

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[โ€“] Tangent5280 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reconstruct sound using smartphone accelerators? What do you mean? That accelerometers can act as speakers and produce sound? Or they can act as microphones and record sound as numerical data of vibrations etc? Can you point me to any articles or sources?

[โ€“] Drunemeton 6 points 1 year ago

https://csl.illinois.edu/news/42303

Not the person you replied to, but a quick internet search resulted in that link.