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.
Not to mention that this was first done years ago by some agency using sound recordings and good old analysis.
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
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.
Password manager users feeling like untouchable gods after this one.
KeepassXC with a Yubikey. Always buy a backup Yubikey folks.
Got a couple of keys, best thing I ever got tbh
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.
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.
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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 wonder why this works.
Try this: on any keyboard (a membrane keyboard especially if you have one) try quickly tapping one key 3 times and then another key 3 times. Move around the keyboard or alternate between two letters.
Can you hear that they make different sounds, but typing the same letter has roughly the same sound? The" plok" has a higher or lower pitch (frequency is the scientific word for it), and a trained AI can match that pitch to a letter if it has or can get an idea of what corresponds to what.
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?
Most of my passwords require key combinations on my heinous qmk config
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