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This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For QWERTY users this is a problem

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The layout is less of an issue, as long as the program analyzing the sounds of your keyboard can diferentiate between all keys, then it can remap to QWERTZ, AZERTY or sny other layout.

However, this attack seems quite involved, so if you are targeted, the attacker could find out the layout in use ahead of time (here in Sweden you are unlikely to find a person using anything but a Swedish layout), they could also fo some social engineering, and hold a chat conversation with you while using your phone to record keystrokes, it would take a while, but over time they could probably get a decently accurate map of your keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't it also be able to crack it in the future as long as it's accurate enough? As long as it's able to accurately recognise what key is which it can crack it like the enigma code.