Watch your keystrokes -- they can be spied upon.
Here's the Merc story today about how a UC Berkeley computer science student figured out how to make audio recordings of keyboard strokes that deciphered which words were being typed.
She used a cheap microphone plugged into a laptop running generic speech recognition software. "It's possible that intelligence agencies are using this method," said her professor, "and it's possible that some bad guys already have this."
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Be careful. This is Doug Tygar we are talking about. How do you know that they didn't have a microphone under each key, or similarly additional information? 97% is too high for me to believe.
ex-CMU on September 17, 2005 11:16 PMComment link
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