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
Old recycled news.
Last time: If you know the model and way of typing of the target you have a good likelyhood.
Does it recognize backspace, select all delete, a few curse words, slamming the desk and then the phrase “that’s what I fucking typed the first time!”
“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.
Years ago I got the (then) admin account password at work because one of the LAN admins typed with two pointer fingers and I just watched.
Same, but at school. My account couldn’t log in for some reason, so the teacher logged me in as admin lmao
Password manager users feeling like untouchable gods after this one.
