A new study suggests that certain AI is able to distinguish what your password is simply by listening to the sound of your keyboard. An unsettling fact for those with crypto wallets.
Scientists have used machine learning techniques to develop a system that can recognize specific laptop keys being pressed solely by analyzing the sound. The new study, published as part of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, and submitted on August 2, found that when trained on keystrokes recorded by a nearby phone, the classifier achieved an accuracy rate of 95%.
AI Can Listen to Your Password Using a Microphone
When trained on keystrokes recorded using the video-conferencing software Zoom, the rate of accuracy was 93%.
With microphone-equipped devices becoming standard, there are legitimate worries that the AI could endanger the privacy of what we type into our laptops and computers. For crypto owners, this could threaten…
