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.
“As a defense measure, the researchers recommend that users use the ten-finger system when typing. In this case, the recognition rate of individual keys dropped significantly.”
Lmao. If you know how to type, then it doesn’t work.
This system also depends on the AI being trained on a particular keyboard. It’s probably not gonna work if you use a non MacBook computer.
Years ago I got the (then) admin account password at work because one of the LAN admins typed with two pointer fingers and I just watched.
What the fuck
Does it recognize backspace, select all delete, a few curse words, slamming the desk and then the phrase “that’s what I fucking typed the first time!”
“Huh… All of this guy’s passwords are CTRL-SHIFT-INS.”
So when my co workers complain about my custom mechanical keyboard being too loud, I should tell them I’m doing it to improve our cyber security.
I once recognized the sounds of a girlfriend deleting texts by where her nail was hitting her phone screen in a specific pattern. That is more sad than impressive, I understand. Just saying that this makes sense and is not beyond human capability on its own.
Most of my passwords require key combinations on my heinous qmk config
That’s why I have 7 different brands of switches all different types on my keyboard.
Wouldn’t that make it easier for the AI?
Old recycled news.
Last time: If you know the model and way of typing of the target you have a good likelyhood.
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For QWERTY users this is a problem
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.
i wonder why this works.
Because all keys on a keyboard sound slightly different, computers can detect those differences, and compare it with a baseline from either the same keyboard or a model just like it.
Try this: on any keyboard (a membrane keyboard especially if you have one) try quickly tapping one key 3 times and then another key 3 times. Move around the keyboard or alternate between two letters.
Can you hear that they make different sounds, but typing the same letter has roughly the same sound? The" plok" has a higher or lower pitch (frequency is the scientific word for it), and a trained AI can match that pitch to a letter if it has or can get an idea of what corresponds to what.
