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Researchers find ways to sniff keystrokes from thin air
- carlosrr 18y agoA few years ago there were some papers about logging keystrokes by recording the sounds of the different keys in the keyboard. Keyboard Acoustic Emanations: http://www.truststc.org/pubs/3.html http://www.truststc.org/pubs/3.html
- eru 18y agoAnd as far as I remember they just had to input the statistical properties of the text you were typing and no information about the keyboard to train their algorithm.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoThis information (EM leakage from computers) is at least 20 years old. It used to be they could pull up in a van full of radio gear outside your office and read both the keystrokes and the monitors. The state of the art has advanced a long way since then.
- wingo 18y agoOld or not, it's still quite disturbing.