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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".
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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.
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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
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