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This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing (www.pcworld.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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