Researchers snoop on keyboard sounds - you'd never know it....

[FragTek]

I was just browsing around CNN.com and stumbled across a VERY interesting read... Apparently just from analyzing the sounds that your keyboard makes when typing you can put it all together to tell what was typed. Kind of scary actually, I've never even thought about the "clacks" coming from the keyboard as I typed along being used as a spy tactic... Crazyness I say!



Researchers snoop on keyboard sounds

If spyware and key-logging software weren't a big enough threat to privacy, researchers have figured out a way to eavesdrop on your computer simply by listening to the clicks and clacks of the keyboard. Those seemingly random noises, when processed by a computer, were translated with up to 96 percent accuracy, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

Full Article: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/09/21/keyboard.sniffing.ap/index.html

 

[NickS]

I say thats BS, especially if u can type uber fast .

 

[bloodthirst]

yeah i agree that sounds fucked, all the sound on keyboard sound relatively the same?

 

[FragTek]

Don't be mad because someone's way more uber smart than you are

 

[limqareb]

what we need is the das keyboard (one previously show on sx) no one would never get to know it!!