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Re:Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals (2015) [pdf] by glastra on Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:25AM (#12357789)
To deploy this in a real world scenario seems implausible to me. You would need specific models for every person, laptop and router combination, as the physiology of the hands, the gestures when typing, and the location and power of the laptop's and router's antennas can all be different.

The only relevant attack could be to train on a specific target (person+laptop+location) for a given amount of time to achieve high accuracy, but to do this you already have to know what the person is typing...

Re:Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals (2015) [pdf] by hughperkins on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:28AM (#12357978)
i imagine people tap things like "the" quite regularly. its a simple transposition cypher.
Re:Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals (2015) [pdf] by glastra on Thursday August 25, 2016 @09:53AM (#12358971)
Assuming they are continuously writing English text is quite the assumption.
Re:Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals (2015) [pdf] by hughperkins on Thursday August 25, 2016 @02:23PM (#12361216)
i guess if we are hacking wifi, we probably know approximately which continent they are in. but even if they are typing say pinyin, theres a spacebar between each word, and three characters per word, seems like an obvious heuristic?