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Everybody is offended by an idea of a sex with them
Another great reason to use a custom, constantly shifting keyboard layout
It’s just a question of matching pattern with most used words against languages…
The article doesn’t mention how it compensates for different keyboards. Like wouldn’t different switches and wear change the sound?
That’s because it’s Wired. Basically a big ass advertisement.
It sounds like bs but its cause that’s been solved since around Roman times, heres a pretty interesting website on the technique
Dude in the thumbnail looks like an un-and-coming Bond villain.
Dude in the thumbnail is Samy. He’s been a bond villain for a long time now.
Laughs in DVORAK. This is some pretty funny Schitzotroll.
it’s heuristic, so it doesn’t matter what layout you use.
Ah fuuck
Make it a UV laser and it would be invisible.
demonstrating that he can point a laser that’s invisible to the human eye at a faraway laptop, through a window, and detect the computer’s vibrations to reconstruct virtually every character typed on it
Infrared is not visible
It is visible to security cameras
Ahh ok, that’s what you meant before I guess
Since that function is usually meant for night vision, I wonder how well a security camera can pick out the laser during the day i.e. when the IR sensors are being swamped by daylight also coming in through the window
Infrared doesn’t pass through windows.
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I have an IR camera and windows look like mirrors. Might depend on the type of glass idk.
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That makes a lot of sense, thanks for doing the homework!
Some UV is blocked by glass. Either UVA or UVB. It doesn’t block both.
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I’m not going to argue with you but you should read the article perhaps? It’s pretty specific about where the laser is aimed vis a vis windows and whatnot
Infrared is not visible
To humans
It’s already infrared. Also, UV is partially visible to humans in some scenarios.
Great, now hackers and spies can detect my typing instead of using RATs or Trojans or packet sniffers, or just beating me with a $5 wrench (XKCD)
Also:
The trick, which takes advantage of the subtle acoustics created by tapping different keys on a computer, works even without a view of the computer’s keyboard, so long as the hacker has a line-of-sight view of any relatively reflective portion of the target laptop.
So… Closing the curtains is all it takes to defeat this amazing technological method. GG.
My keyboard is loud enough that it can be heard that far away anyway
So they can hear me type p + enter into my browser?
Ah, another pterodactyl aficionado!
On screen keyboard rides again!
Binoculars
So how do we fix this? Dumb nerds never think about the consequences of their creations.
From the article: “Even knowing that Kamkar’s silent, invisible, long-distance laser spy trick exists, how does anyone hide their secrets from it? He suggests that companies install double-paned or reflective glass. Some security device companies also sell protection devices that affix to windows and vibrate them to prevent laser microphone spying, and Kamkar concedes he hasn’t tested his attack against those. But he also suggests a safer countermeasure: “Don’t work on computers visible from a window,” he says. “Or just have dirty windows.””
Companies can’t even be convinced to have longer passwords on their wifi. And open office plans mean every computer faces a window
Then companies deserved to be hacked. shrug
But I work at companies and I would like my info to not be hacked. Their fuck ups affect employees and customers
And they should be held liable for the costs occurred to employees and customers.
The problem is the companies aren’t suffering the majority of the consequences of the security breaches, it’s the people these companies have personal information on & that includes people who have never done business with these companies but that these companies purchased data on.
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What a strange response.
Sorry I can’t hear you over my jet engine case fans
Oddly enough - all my keystrokes sound exactly the same which makes this person’s claim so much bullshit.
Maybe to you, but with a proper algorithmic analysis of the sounds differences can be fingerprinted and differentiated.
Riiiiiight…
Came to find out about the audio quality of this exceptional microphone.
:(
Random unrelated thought I just had, can you guys think of any interesting musical applications to a laser microphone? I found this super cool video when I tried to look it up (there’s practically nothing)
