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This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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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.

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[–] gedaliyah 66 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] YoorWeb 2 points 11 months ago

Not to mention that this was first done years ago by some agency using sound recordings and good old analysis.

[–] Raxiel 1 points 11 months ago

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