Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Something else to worry about...

[See previous]

It turns out that if someone can make a recording of the sounds of your typing, they can figure out what you typed:

Acoustic Snooping on Typed Information

From the article: That includes passwords:This means that we should see people advertising silent keyboards fairly soon.

Comments:
Oh, that's easily countered. Just do like I do: annoy your officemates and crank up iTunes.
 
I doubt this would work with hunt-and-peckers :)
 
Check out Markus Kuhn's work for similar issues with displays:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
 
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