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Re:Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping by dmcginty on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:26PM (#31402156)
Does this assume that the keyboard is qwerty, or is it able to identify typing patterns regardless of the keyboard layout? I use Dvorak and I couldn't get any of the demos to work for me, but that may just be my fault.
Re:Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping by pc86 on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:28PM (#31402171)
I skimmed the readme but a chunk of it is admittedly over my head, however I would expect something based on letter frequency and n-grams to work regardless of layout, while something that relies on the acoustics of the individual keys to be layout-dependent.
Re:Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping by sleepybrett on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:09PM (#31402600)
Based on the readme it seems to need training data, so assuming you train it with the same layout you want to use later to capture from. i don't see why it wouldn't work.
Re:Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping by theophrastus on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:23PM (#31403287)
from the web-page:

    It does not require training data - instead it uses statistical information about the frequencies of the letters and n-grams in the English language.
and from this it should also be noted that it won't apparently be able to extract passwords, as least those which aren't "n-grams in the English language".
Re:Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping by asimpletune on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:32PM (#31403388)
This would be a good argument against the xkcd philosophy towards passwords.
Re:Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping by normie3000 on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:09PM (#31403720)
Unless when typing your password you deliberately use different fingers than you would when typing normally