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AI can identify passwords by sound of keys being pressed, study suggests
- porkbeer 3y agoWe did this over 15 years ago without ai.
- fsflover 3y agoLink?
- mmcwilliams 3y agoIt's not 15 years ago but I remember this[0] being shared on HN 5 years ago. I can't find them at the moment but I also do remember seeing whitepapers outlining the same techniques before that. This one is interesting to me, now, considering who the author is. [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
- aeonik 3y agoI saw a talk at Defcon many years ago showing this. I think they just used statistics. I can't find the video, but here is the PDF of their presentation: Sniff Keystrokes With Lasers/Voltmeters - Side Channel Attacks Using Optical ... https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2017/DEF%20CON%2017%20presentations/DEF%20CON%2017%20-%20barisani-bianco-sniff_keystrokes.pdf https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2017/DEF%20CON%2017%20pre...
- fsflover 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704
- constantcrying 3y ago>study suggests Who writes this? No a "study" didn't suggest this. Researchers implemented an algorithm which can do that.
- jackpt 3y agoThe study didn't use special characters and also used the same laptop keyboard, which I would imagine significantly inflates the percentage compared to a real world situation for this to be effective.
- fatfingerd 3y agoThe particular method suggested is about using correlatable known text with audio situations to build the accuracy for other recordings of the same typist. I.e. a meeting with a chat feature or an office app may have correlated exanples.
- bleepblop 3y agoI prefer silent keyboards. Mechanical boards drive me up a wall.