I read about this in the Silence on the Wire by Michal Zalewski. And you don't need a fullblown AI, a good statistical model is enough to make a guess on passwords, and if you have a bunch of probabilities to cut down your search space to a more probable set. And the book is from 2005, so I wouldn't say it is new. <a href="https://nostarch.com/silence.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://nostarch.com/silence.htm</a><p>I even remember reading about how Clifford Stoll recognized the different attackers by "typing rhythm" in Cuckoo's Egg.
This is why I use a separate keyboard to type in my password. If you don’t have a dedicated keyboard, then I suggest you have a loved one come over to enter your passwords for you. Sometimes I have my kid do it
No details about what specific study they are referring to. These attacks are possible for several years now.<p>2016 - "Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP" - <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09359" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09359</a><p>2020 - "Behavioral Acoustic Emanations: Attack and Verification of PIN Entry Using Keypress Sounds" - <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309150/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309150/</a><p>Maybe they mean this one...<p>2023 - "A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards" - <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074</a>
And just today there is a post about the Sneakers Movie Promotional Floppy!<p>Now, from memory I’m pretty sure there is a scene where the visually impaired / blind Hacker can work out the password by listening to the audio on the surveillance tape!<p>I’m probably mangling my memory of the scene, so please correct me! :-)<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585213">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585213</a>
Does anyone know what the SotA foss local demo of something like this is? I'd really like to try and understand first hand what the limitations are.