New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

https://lemmy.world/post/2746650

New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy - Lemmy.world

New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy::A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.

Tangentially related: Did you know, that it‘s technically also possible to reconstruct sound via smartphone accelerometers and there‘s no restrictions on which apps can use it. Have fun with this info (:

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