Gotcha, that makes more sense
Comment on Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 months agoI think it’s largely been a state actor thing. Directional microphone to record your window from across the street, spend significant tax money on crunching numbers on a supercomputer to get at your password kind of thing, I think they already could do it in the 90s. Real-time 95% accuracy on a non-specialised device is a quite different ballpark: Now every skiddie can do it.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
skulblaka@kbin.social 6 months ago
And this is the real, serious problem. Most people are pretty unlikely to stop a state sponsored spy operation no matter how careful they are. It's barely worth worrying about unless you know for a fact you're being tapped and that you will be killed about it, and even if you do know this the state can pull some space age bullshit out of their asses that doesn't yet have a counter. Top secret military industrial research goes into maintaining that exact advantage every year, if they really want to get you, you will get got. But if Joey Dickbeater and his school friends can just point a mic at your window and then upload it to the Pass-o-Gram to decode it, you have a real problem. It's like when TikTok kids figured out they can steal Kias with usb keys - if every teenager in America knows how to steal your car, its lifetime is going to be measured in minutes. Same with passwords.
Sounds like it's time to buy a bunch of random cherry switches and randomize them across my keyboard.....
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What it means is that NIST probably needs to update its security recommendations to require hardware keys for even low level systems. It’s going to be a huge pain in the ass though.
ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And rotate them. While I don’t plan to waste my energy, having hot swap sockets and swapping a few around should thwart the attack. You would have to do it frequently enough that relevant training data gets wasted before it’s useful. I’m pretty paranoid, but not that much.
I’ll just consider it good security hygiene to get a new keyboard often :)
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Have you considered only re-doing the tinfoil wrapper every day? It should crackle differently every time.