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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy::A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.

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[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was just thinking, streamers might have to be careful actually — you can often both see and hear when they're typing, so if you correlated the two you could train a key audio → key press mapping model. And then if they type a password for something, even if it's off-screen from their stream, the audio might clue you in on what they're typing.

[–] quadropiss@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That could hypothetically be avoided by distorting the streamed audio just a tiny bit

[–] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Or just use a password wallet.

[–] Mockrenocks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Could be a fun honey pot.