This mouse has ears.
Now I need to know whether or not they did this testing with trackball mice. Hopefully they’re safer from these types of attacks.
Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech
Submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Here’s a link to the source
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
We’all need foss mice.
Dhar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
We got 'em already: ploopy.co/mouse/
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
PMW3360
QMK
kit to build it yourselfA poopy mouse, nice!
3D printed
Interesting.
Bongles@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Can we stop finding ways to do this?
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If the people on the good side stop trying to find exploits like this, and by finding them develop awareness and knowledge about them, so that countermeasures can be devised, then bad actors are much more likely to find new exploits first, and when they exploit it you won’t even see it coming anymore.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
www.spymuseum.org/…/the-great-seal/
Governments have been finding crazy ways to listen to eachother for so long. Now every ear is directed at consumers to milk them like cows.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sadly no. The only way is to come up with countermeasures.
- play music through speakers while using mouse
- leave rumble gamepad playing demo of game on desk
- put vibrator set to ‘random pulse mode’ on the desk
quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Use a trackpad?
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
What kind of masochist would ever want to use a trackpad? Nothing against people who actually do, but I absolutely HATE trackpads because I have had a long history of not having a good time with them.
fubarx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the raw audio data is run through digital signal processing using a Wiener Filter, where you can start to hear some information.
Oy, no tittering in the back.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Weiner Filter sounds made up
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
For a moment I imagined some Chad mouse with super sensing
They mean computer mouse…
qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Geeze, companies today are so desperate
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
That requires a mouse with an 8kHz polling rate. With a 1kHz polling rate, this trick will be limited to sounds under 500Hz.
MorkofOrk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well now I kind of want to mic up a kick drum with my gaming mouse for fun lol
MorkofOrk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wonder if it would sound better taped on, in the drum itself, or on the floor in front. Seems like there would be minimal bleed too haha, might be a cool lo-fi thing
toothpick@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
And probably only works when configured to use the the highest DPI settings.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Huh you know from a music perspective I know we can get a lot higher than 500hz but most speech is apparently around 1-300hz.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 months ago
I only speak in infrasound…
SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cool, cool. So what hertz range would you say a woman moaning or a particularly loud fart fall around ? Just out of curiosity…
ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Human speech is between about 130-300Hz, so even with a lower poling rate it can pick it up. And assuming she sound like a mosquito, it’ll pick things up.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Just use a mouse pad.