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No only a keylogger, but a "soundlogger" would also work. Checking long posts on news sites or blogs just to make sure it is the writer would be interesting, b
by cristianocd 14y ago
No only a keylogger, but a "soundlogger" would also work.
Checking long posts on news sites or blogs just to make sure it is the writer would be interesting, but boring and not worth it.
- shabble 14y agoFor interesting research here, see: Keyboard Acoustic Emanations Revisited, Li Zhuang, Feng Zhou, J. D. Tygar http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/keyboard.htm http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/keyboard.htm "We examine the problem of keyboard acoustic emanations. We present a novel attack taking as input a 10-minute sound recording of a user typing English text using a keyboard, and then recover- ing up to 96% of typed characters. There is no need for a labeled training recording. Moreover the recognizer bootstrapped this way can even recognize random text such as passwords: In our experi- ments, 90% of 5-character random passwords using only letters can be generated in fewer than 20 attempts by an adversary; 80% of 10- character passwords can be generated in fewer than 75 attempts.
- Splines 14y agoNow that would be magical - visit a website and start making comments, after a period of time it'd create an account for you with no input at all. Now, visit it from a different browser or computer and make another comment - it would log you in as you again, somehow. Errors would likely make it unpractical, but it'd be an amusing demo for the unaware.