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This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing::British researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to recognize keystrokes by sound. A smartphone placed near a laptop served as the microphone.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

One solution would be a password mode where the keys randomly rearrange, so you are using different physical keys each time. Kinda like you can do with passcodes on Android. Ofc this implies some way of dynamically displaying the keys, but that would be cool in itself.

Or what about playing sounds that block out the clicking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rearranging the keys? My password’s pretty much muscle memory, typed fast enough in not really worried about people watching me enter it. Call me lazy, but having to pick and hit every key? No thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Especially, this would be less secure since you have to search the keys every time and give the attacker time to read which key you typed. Best Password is no Password (private key).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Playing sounds? sure.

Rearranging keys - hell no.