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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Agent 1: "He's about to type his password. Here we go... 1...2..3..A..B..C"

Agent 2: "I feel like we could have figured this out with brute-force"

Agent 1: "Wait! He's on the move. ..no he was just scratching his balls. ... Judging from the sound of it, I'd say he hasn't trimmer his balls for a long time."

Agent 2: "The AI picks up at least 15cm long strands, and some breadcrumbs. 50% rye, 50 wheat. Is that nutella and ketchup?"

Agent 1: "Dear God, what a freak".

Agent 2 takes note. "He's basically a sex offender at this point"

The future is now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agent 1: "yeah. hes the sex offender."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Everybody is offended by an idea of a sex with them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another great reason to use a custom, constantly shifting keyboard layout

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use blank key caps, and I find it leads to much more comfortable touch typing.

Slower, sure, but cozier also

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Why would blank keycaps matter for touch typing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's just a question of matching pattern with most used words against languages...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The article doesn't mention how it compensates for different keyboards. Like wouldn't different switches and wear change the sound?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That's because it's Wired. Basically a big ass advertisement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It sounds like bs but its cause that's been solved since around Roman times, heres a pretty interesting website on the technique

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And perhaps he was named Billy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude in the thumbnail looks like an un-and-coming Bond villain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Dude in the thumbnail is Samy. He's been a bond villain for a long time now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Make it a UV laser and it would be invisible.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

demonstrating that he can point a laser that's invisible to the human eye at a faraway laptop, through a window, and detect the computer's vibrations to reconstruct virtually every character typed on it

Infrared is not visible

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It is visible to security cameras

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Infrared doesn't pass through windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

actually thats UV. transition lenses won't change with a glass window thats not open. infrared is basically heat and does indeed pass through. Cars in the sun would not get hot so fast if they did not let in infrared.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have an IR camera and windows look like mirrors. Might depend on the type of glass idk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if this yahoo from the internet I found in a search is right then its both:

"Glass will bock low frequency IR (red hot), but allow the passage of high frequency (white hot) IR. Hence, the heat of the sun will easily pass into a greenhouse, but once this energy is converted into low frequency heat by the objects within that absorb it, then the resulting low frequency heat is trapped. Hence, the Greenhouse Effect."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for doing the homework!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It's already infrared. Also, UV is partially visible to humans in some scenarios.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Laughs in DVORAK. This is some pretty funny Schitzotroll.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it's heuristic, so it doesn't matter what layout you use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So they can hear me type p + enter into my browser?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, another pterodactyl aficionado!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

On screen keyboard rides again!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oddly enough - all my keystrokes sound exactly the same which makes this person's claim so much bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe to you, but with a proper algorithmic analysis of the sounds differences can be fingerprinted and differentiated.