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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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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%.

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[–] 3arn0wl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does the research presume the use of a qwerty keyboard?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would think that would be a safe assumption most of the time. Less than 1% of typists use Dvorak, for example.

[–] sci@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in french speaking countries Azerty is the standard i think

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Belgium as well and I hate my country for it.

[–] Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It uses the sounds it records and compares again the messages you send. So in theory it's layout agnostic.