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Do you think a phone call is high enough bitrate for these attacks, or are you implying parabolic microphones could be used to make this happen? The mentioned
by vngzs 7y ago
Do you think a phone call is high enough bitrate for these attacks, or are you implying parabolic microphones could be used to make this happen?
The mentioned paper contains a remark:
> While recording from the third keyboard, we get several seconds of unexpected noise from a cellphone nearby.
But that's the only mention of a phone in the paper ...
- soulofmischief 7y agoI don't think the techniques and technology have become quite refined enough for this to be widely deployed, at most people are simply experimenting with the idea. But people are taking this seriously because it represents quite an attack vector once things fall into place. The thing is we won't know when we've reached that threshold until the first news stories about a widespread phishing scam using the technique emerge. It seems VoIP will be the first low-hanging fruit: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.09359.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.09359.pdf