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Initially I thought they were muting the mic so that the key strokes would not be heard/recorded. There has been talk in the past of inferring passwords based
by chrisjc 5y ago
Initially I thought they were muting the mic so that the key strokes would not be heard/recorded.
There has been talk in the past of inferring passwords based on the unique sounds of each key, time between strokes, etc... Moreover, the more frequently you do broadcast your password keystrokes, combined with all the other key stroking you do throughout the rest of your stream, the easier it becomes to come up with the password.
Now I'm not so sure that's what they meant?
- chrismorgan 5y agoMuting the microphone while you type the password. That is, you run `sudo foo`, and it mutes the microphone before giving you the “[sudo] password for ‹username›: ” prompt, then unmutes it when you have entered the password and pressed Enter, and then runs `foo` as root.
- chrisjc 5y agoUnderstood... but why are you doing this? Bc someone could decipher your passwords if you record the sound of your keystrokes while entering them?
- marcan_42 5y agoYes, it's what you initially thought. I sudo often enough during the streams that I could see someone trying to pull that off and succeeding.