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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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[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't remember if the one I saw was movie or TV but I want to say the plot device in question (from the instance I remembered) was a small acoustic bug under the caps lock key. At the time I thought that was too far fetched to be possible. We live in a world....