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This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing (www.pcworld.com)

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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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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I suspect it also uses timing between each key stroke to basically triangulate all possible combinations (this method would at least have to know the exact starting key to construct the password from this distance info, that is why I said all possible combinations)

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