British researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to recognize keystrokes by sound. A smartphone placed near a laptop served as the microphone.

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.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

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

    • Raxiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 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