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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by moonchrome on Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:22PM (#37016820)
Seems simple to defend - use a password manager.
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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by cmod on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:03AM (#37019615)
until you have to type your password to unlock it
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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by tomjakubowski on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:54AM (#37020153)
your password manager hopefully uses an additional factor to enable it on a new device, so definitely avoid typing that in on Twitch
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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by moonchrome on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:18AM (#37020262)
Biometric unlock or PIN ? I have to type my master password on restart, hopefully you can do that off screen.
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Re:New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% ... by angry_octet on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:58AM (#37021421)
High security safe locks have had protection against this for a long time: you press up/down arrows to move from a random starting digit to the correct digit.

On screen pin entry with jumbled number mappings does the same thing. It also makes the inter-stroke delay rather independent of position, because the brain has to search the screen (although repeated digits and previously occuring digits are quicker, which is why some jumble at every keystroke).

Keyboards with OLED keys (like the Apple Touchbar or the Optimus[1]) might also work.

[1] https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/popularis/

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