There are many utilities that artificial intelligence can have on a day-to-day basis to make us much more productive. But beyond the uses that we can consider as ‘ethical’, different researchers are also investigating the fact of searching as use it to be able to interpret keyboard input with just its audio.
That is, each of the keyboards on the market has a particular sound depending on the key that is being pressed. Making use of this peculiarity, artificial intelligence can be used to know the keys that are being pressed just by listening to them (with prior training). And obviously this is something ‘useful’ to be able to get other people’s passwords.
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An AI capable of listening to the passwords you type
A Cornell research team has been responsible for leading this study in which guess passwords with 95% accuracy. Obviously it cannot work on any random keyboard, but must be trained for specific hardware. Specifically, the study focuses on a MacBook Pro for training.
Specifically, 36 individual keys were pressed 25 times for each one of them so that the AI could associate each of the sounds to the key being pressed. It was possible to detail that there were very subtle differences between each of the keys in his wave.
In this way, when it comes to putting the AI next to a MacBook while it is typing, even through Zoom, it can determine which keys are being pressed. And the main use lies precisely in determine the passwords being typedbeing a really interesting way of hacking although it has many limitations.
Specifically, it is detailed that mechanical keyboards are ideal for this training above the membrane system. But it would also become very easy to eradicate the bug with a white noise while you’re typing. Although what is truly important is the fraudulent use that can be made to steal a password simply by leaving a device listening as someone is typing in person or by Zoom.
Via | Tom’s Hardware
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