Hackers can tell what people are typing just by listening through a smartphone's microphone

Razer g2s at riseup.net
Sun Aug 25 14:05:25 PDT 2019



On August 24, 2019 11:25:42 PM PDT, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MbloCip?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC
>
>Hackers can tell what people are typing just by listening through a
>smartphone's microphone
>
>Daily Mail
>
>
>>
>Hackers could be able to tell what you are typing on your computer just
>by listening to your keystrokes through your smartphone's microphone, a
>new study warns.
>
>Shared from News Break 
>
>
>Jim Bell's comment:Peter Wright's 1970's book, Spycatcher, described an
>early, primitive version of this technology.


By audio waveform signatures. I always assumed this was a 'thing'.

But if the audio is ever 'detached' from the source person's ID it becomes sort of useless.

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