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This is a bit scary for coding livestreamers who may have to answer the call from sudo now and again. I'm curious how the maintainer feels about the usage of th
by seveibar 6y ago
This is a bit scary for coding livestreamers who may have to answer the call from sudo now and again. I'm curious how the maintainer feels about the usage of this application. What drove you to continue the development of the software? What kind of people are part of the community in a broad sense?
- ggerganov 6y ago> What drove you to continue the development of the software? The same things that drive security researchers to explore different security exploits. I don't condone anyone using this for malicious purposes.
- seveibar 6y agoIt's important work, thanks! Don't let people like me being afraid of a bad actors stop the process of publicizing exploits if it leads to a safer future :)
- avh02 6y agoI've seen people blur their keyboard on these parts, I figure they'll start bleeping/muting that portion
- SamBam 6y agoI believe the technology has existed for quite some time. I think perhaps the idea was even mentioned in Cryptonomicon. So I think that making it more available/open should hopefully make people more aware that it's a danger. That said, it significantly lowers the barrier for entry, much like script kiddie hacking.
- zerd 6y agoWell known since at least 2004 https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~genkin/teaching/fall2018/EECS598-12_files/kbdacoustic.pdf https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~genkin/teaching/fall2018/EECS598... https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/acoustic-keyboard-eavesdropping.html https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/acoustic-keyboar... More recent one that works well over VoIP: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3365366 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3365366