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How does it work - listen for keypresses? Is there any protection against this being a keylogger?

• GavinAnderegg 3y ago
  I bought it through the App Store and it requires you to give the app Accessibility access. I hesitated about this, but it does make sense. The good news is that you can turn this setting on and off easily. So potentially you could only run the app with access to keyboard input when you're choosing to write something that's not sensitive.
• gkbrk 3y ago
  Not giving this network access seems like it should be enough.
• pbhjpbhj 3y ago
  My first thought too. There was something recently about hacks using actual sounds from a keyboard (which is an old thing) but someone commented that they had trained an AI in 30 minutes or so that had about 90% accuracy -- I think someone used this technique to hack a phone scam group too, just from listening to them typing over the phone as the scammer targeted them. Hot!
  • pallas_athena 3y ago
    > they had trained an AI in 30 minutes or so that had about 90% accuracy IF we're talking about the same article, the AI was trained from sounds recorded from a single phone, placed always in the same spot near a single computer that was being used by a single person. My guess is that it can't generalize OR that for it to be a viable attack, you have to target a specific person and access a microphone always placed in the same spot near the target comuputer