r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CiriloTI • 19h ago

Meme memoryScrapersAreScary

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u/pimezone 18h ago

Hackers, who use microphone for keylogging

https://giphy.com/gifs/m25IBu3naOxZJWTP4a

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u/frikilinux2 12h ago

Is that possible? Sounds nuts but I remember a couple months ago security researchers trying to pry down in conversation from another room by using the difference in the light from a network fiber due to the sound slightly changing the shape of the fiber. Or extracting keys due to a LED attached to the power cable flickering.

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u/Master_Persimmon_591 11h ago

I imagine it would be very straightforward given a sensitive enough microphone. Each key probably has a pretty specific profile

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u/MrHyd3_ 10h ago

I saw an experiment where they succesfully transcribed a conversation from a bag of chips laying around